Permaculture Teacher Training in East Africa

"The fist supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local feilds, and forests." - Joel Salatin

WE can be regenerative!

The more we consume, the more we stress the people and all the ecosystems that are impacted by the supply chain. If we bring our production home and take responsibility for its impacts, we begin to get up close and personal with the costs of all consumer creation. Don't you agree? How can we as a movement create this shift? I know we have experienced how proximity breeds a new ethic of appreciation, through an enhanced understanding and sensitivity for agriculture and manufacturing and the end consumer niche. Bringing production into our own auspices also takes the pressure off places in the world that do not have significant labor and environmental protections to ensure fair wages, abundance of food, health, clean water and air. 

We have infiltrated these lands and their communities with western ways and mass productivity for the global niche. We’ve disrupted a whole culture, land, and tradition/culture. We are encouraging a shift in perspective that there is beauty, harmony and room for improvement in reducing consumption and moving toward purchasing regeneratively and sustainably farmed produce as a whole. If we don't put this on the forefront of our mission, we have lost the game and left the world more confused. Could we ultimately admonish efforts for people to focus on what they really need and think and source locally? The idea is to just bring total mindfulness in what and how we eat, inhibit and ultimately shop and manage our lifestyles. We really do need to focus on all of our broader systems becoming more ”regenerative” and think of of whole systems. Permaculture can be used a tool to shift not only production but our day to day production at out jobs, lifestyles, conversations, relationships and out thinking as a whole. This coud be a perma-nent fix to all of the world's problems.

(Regenerative Agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, and enhances ecosystem services.)

We want to create and support regenerative systems that bring life back and leave the environment better off than it was when we started. It should be in everyone's life mission to leave earth more abundant than we found it. This cound't be more prominent than now!

At PRI Kenya we have been promoting several things; particularly partnering  anc collaboartinf with for-profits, non-profits and bussinesses on all spectrums that are working on developing the infrastructure changes and shifts needed to bring a regional and regenerative approach to help shift the current paradigm. We want to work closely with the supply chain, farmers, producers, coffee shops, corporates, urban and suburban contexts to form a closed loop system and re-think design. This is our organizational shift in bridging people, We ought to support strategic changes in agricultural practices as well as the manufacturing/production systems that add value to the product to enhance the shift. We encourage relationship building between farmers, ranchers. producers, shop keepers and endusers, as these relationships tend to develop into new local production based businesses. 

We want to be effective and strategic in opening up markets with the expertise needed and bridge the gaps to ensure there is access to locallty available produce and good, ensuring fair share and care for the people. 

We certianly can't do this alone! We need your help!

Warmly,