From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] OCT 4 7pm/Child Soldiers of Liberia, Transformation through Permaculture with Warren Brush/ Santa Barbara CA 2008
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:13:06 -0700
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network's
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 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 techniques, as a part of
the course, the students participated in a design project for the
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. Permaculture teachers from around the world have taught at
Quail Springs, and most recently, students from Liberia have attended
advanced courses there. The hope is to share the ecological design
techniques and strategies with both the local communities of
California and the world. Currently they are 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 world.
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 $10. For more information please call (805) 962-2571, or
email <mailto:margie@sbpermaculture.org>margie@sbpermaculture.org;
www.sbpermaculture.org. Sponsored by the Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network and Everyday Gandhis.
Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
an educational non-profit since 2000
(805) 962-2571
P.O. Box 92156, Santa Barbara, CA 93190
margie@sbpermaculture.org
<http://www.sbpermaculture.org/>www.sbpermaculture.org
[permaculture] OCT 4 7pm/Child Soldiers of Liberia, Transformation through Permaculture with Warren Brush/ Santa Barbara CA 2008,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 09/24/2008