[Scpg] SAT. OCT 4 7pm/Child Soldiers of Liberia, Transformation through Permaculture with Warren Brush, Santa Barbara CA USA

[Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

Contact: Margie Bushman
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571, email: 
<mailto:margie at sbpermaculture.org>margie at sbpermaculture.org

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
  Permaculture Around the World Series

Child Soldiers of Liberia, Transformation through Permaculture
with Warren Brush

Saturday, October 4, 7-9pm 2008
Fundraiser Donation $10
Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery

         Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network as it 
launches its new series "Permaculture Around the World" by hosting a 
talk with Warren Brush of Quail Springs Learning Oasis and 
Permaculture Farm as he talks about his journey and work in Liberia, 
West Africa.

       Invited by the Santa Barbara based non-profit Everyday Gandhis 
(www.everydaygandhis.org), Warren Brush traveled to Liberia to teach 
workshops in Permaculture as a part of a peace building process, with 
vocational training for many former child-soldiers from a brutal 15 
year civil war the country had endured.  After the long civil war, 
the land was injured, but so were its children, now grown to young 
adults.  Caught in the nightmare of a war they didn't create, but had 
been conscripted into, many were reluctant to return to their homes 
after the terrible atrocities of war. Could Permaculture help heal 
the land and its people?

Warren Brush made his first journey to Voinjama, Liberia in 2007 to 
teach a Permaculture course to students from a wide variety of 
backgrounds. These included elders of all the local tribes, medicine 
people, ex-combatant youth, trained agriculturists, subsistence 
farmers, men and women, all teaching translated into the local 
language.  Teaching sustainable agriculture and building techniques, 
as a part of the course, the students participated in a design 
project for a newly created Peace and Permaculture Demonstration 
Farm.  In March 2008, the first graduating class of a Permaculture 
Design Course in Liberia's history received their diplomas from an 
assistant to the country's President H.E.Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 
noting the significance of the event.

Permaculture (PERMAnent agriCULTURE) is the conscious design and 
maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems that have the 
diversity, resilience, and stability of natural ecosystems. It is the 
harmonious integration of landscape with humans in providing shelter, 
water, food, energy and other material and non-material needs in a 
sustainable manner.

Quail Springs is a 450-acre working farm and wilderness center 
focused on modeling and teaching the concepts and practices of 
sustainability. Located in the Cuyama Valley north of Ojai, CA, Quail 
Springs (www.quailsprings.org) has been incorporating Permaculture 
into all of its land practices on their farm and demonstration site 
since it's inception.  Permaculture teachers from around the world 
have taught at Quail Springs, and most recently, students from 
Liberia have attended advanced training courses there.  The hope is 
to share ecological design techniques and strategies with both the 
local communities of California and the world.  Currently Quail 
Springs is involved in a capital campaign to help build a Core 
Mentoring Center to accommodate this work, and join a network of 
Permaculture Training Centers around the globe.

Warren Brush is a certified Permaculture designer, educator, and 
storyteller. He is co-founder of Quail Springs Learning Oasis & 
Permaculture Farm, Wilderness Youth Project, Mentoring for Peace, and 
Trees for Children.  He works extensively in Permaculture education 
and sustainability design in North America and in Africa.  Follow 
Warren's work in Africa on his blog at 
http://web.mac.com/warrenbrush/iWeb/Site/African%20Journeys/African%20Journeys.html.


The event takes place at the Santa Barbara Public Library, Faulkner 
Gallery, 40 East Anapamu St, in downtown Santa Barbara, on Saturday, 
October 4, 7-9pm, 2008.  No reservations are required, fundraiser 
donation for Quail Springs work $10. For more information please call 
(805) 962-2571, or email 
<mailto:margie at sbpermaculture.org>margie at sbpermaculture.org; 
www.sbpermaculture.org. Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Permaculture 
Network and Everyday Gandhis.

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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
    an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie at sbpermaculture.org
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in 
order to grow." - Anonymous

First Annual Southern California Permaculture Convergence August 2008
http://socalifornia.permacultureconvergence.org
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