Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
Permaculture Around the World Series
with Joseph Lentunyoi
from the Permaculture Research
Institute of Kenya
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Thursday, July 11, 7pm - 9pm 2013
Donation $5
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner
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oin Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as it continues
its Permaculture Around the World series, highlighting the
path of Permaculture around the globe, this time in Kenya and East
Africa.
Featured is Joseph Lentunyoi from the Maasai tribe, who is the co-founder
of the Permaculture Research Institute of Kenya. Joseph is currently in
the USA teaching a Permaculture Design Course for International
Development at Quail Springs Permaculture in the Cuyama Valley north of
Ojai, CA, to which he brings extensive practical knowledge of sustainable
farming and permaculture teaching experience.
Joseph is the founder and Director of the Laikipia Permaculture Project
and the Sustainability Director for Nyumbani Village, where over 900
children live who have been orphaned by HIV related diseases. He
teaches and designs with permaculture techniques extensively in East
Africa, and has taught several international PDC trainings in Kenya and
Australia. He attended the Kenya Institute of Organic Farming and
Uganda Martyrs University in Agriculture.
The Maasai are nomadic pastoralists who traditionally have no knowledge
of agriculture. But Joseph ironically, is the Maasai tribesman who
is bringing sustainable agriculture education and permaculture
demonstration sites to Kenya after a Permaculture Design Course in
Tanzania in 2007 with Australian permaculture teacher Geoff
Lawton.
Agriculture dominates Kenya’s economy, although more than 80 percent of
its land is too dry and infertile for good cultivation. According
to the Ministry of Agriculture, farming is the largest contributor to
Kenya’s gross domestic product, and 75 percent of Kenyans made their
living by farming in 2006. Kenya is still reeling from the worst
drought in half a century, which affected an estimated 13 million people
across the Horn of Africa in 2011. Kenya is also home to the world’s
largest refugee camp, housing 450,000 Somalis fleeing violence and
famine, increasing the pressure to deal with food security
challenges.
The Permaculture Research Institute of Kenya (PRI-Kenya) is a new
organization, dedicated to permaculture education and promotion of
sustainable practices through support to permaculture projects around
Kenya and East Africa.
The event takes place on Thursday, July 11, 7-9pm at the
downtown Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu St, Santa
Barbara, CA, 93101. Donation $5, no reservations needed. More
Info, (805) 962-2571, margie@sbpermaculture.org,
www.sbpermaculture.org
More Info:
Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) of Kenya
www.pri-
kenya.org/
facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Permaculture-Research-Institute-Kenya/276192719073147
Laikipia Permaculture Centre – a New Centre for Kenya:
http://permaculturenews.org/2013/01/24/laikipia-permaculture-centre-a-new-centre-for-kenya/
A Maasai Tribesman Brings Permaculture to Kenya
by Craig Mackintosh PRI Editor January 18, 2013
http://permaculturenews.org/2013/01/18/a-maasai-tribesman-brings-permaculture-to-kenya/
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