July 25 7pm Santa Fe Presentation Juliu Piti From Africa With Love( Zimbabwe and Tanzania

    On July 25th: Julius Piti
     >From Africa With Love

Sustainability and Permaculture in Africa.  How to do a lot with nearly 
nothing? Find out from Julius Piti from the Chikukwa Ecological Land Use 
Community Trust (CELUCT) in Zimbabwe, Africa whose ecological design 
work in Tanzania has recently been featured in the award winning film 
*/From the Mara Soil/*.
There is much for the world to learn from Chikukwa and CELUCT, for not 
only have they managed to stay food secure and peaceful during the 
conflict ridden years of Zimbabwe, but they have done this with 
solutions that came from within the community, not imposed from the 
outside, and with very little help or funding from international aid 
agencies or NGOs.
Some 20 years ago, most were trying to survive on cash crops that caused 
deforestation and erosion, now over 80% of the population of the 
Chikukwa villages practice permaculture, growing food for themselves 
with a surplus to share, on lush and abundant mountainsides where 
springs honored by indigenous beliefs, have once again sprung to life.

Julious Piti is a permaculture teacher, designer and trainer, and 
conflict facilitator.  He is a founding member of the Chikukwa 
Ecological Land Trust (CELUCT) and the Director of PORET, an 
organization formed to support farmers in the low rainfall area of 
Chaseyama, Zimbabwe where he now lives, by replicating the strategies of 
CELUCT.
*$5 Donation Requested
Wednesday July 25 7-9 pm
 <at>  Agua Fria Community Center