[Scpg] TONIGHT!/Permaculture Around the World Series withJoseph Lentunyoi/Permaculture in Kenya

Thu Jul 11 08:52:08 PDT 2013

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 Gallery

         Join 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 at sbpermaculture.org, www.sbpermaculture.org

Sponsored by Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
www.sbpermaculture.org
  &
Quail Springs Permaculture
www.quailsprings.org

More Info:

Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) of Kenya
www.pri-kenya.org/
facebook 
<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Permaculture-Research-Institute-Kenya/276192719073147>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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