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Fruit is so good for us!
Mangoes from our trees
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Donate to the Permaculture Sabina project here. Specify "for permaculture project" or which part of the project you'd like to support. Email us with any questions.
About Children of Uganda
Children of Uganda is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in the United States, and a registered Ugandan NGO. Read more about COU
About Permaculture
Permaculture is a method for designing sustainable, human-supporting landscapes that mimic the operation of natural ecosystems. We are using permaculture to boost the sustainability of Sabina home and school, on a site of around 110 acres in tropical Southern Uganda. Learn more about permaculture here and view permaculture designs we've completed for Sabina here and here
Thanks to our donors!
Thanks to Meetings Industry Meeting Needs (MIMN) of the U.K. for their generous donation which funded four 10,000 liter rain tanks and the installation of the gutters that move the water from dormitory, school, and library roofs to the tanks. Read more.
Some of the stuff that's happened so far
- 100,000 litres of tank storage 3/4 of which is gravity-feeding to gardens
- Large Vegie Garden with Composting Area, Nursery and Worm Farm
- Food forest area fenced planned and planted
- Chicken system with 68 Chickens laying 60 eggs per day and working the ground for us
- 150 fruit trees planted
- 265 metres of swales dug
- Mandala veggie garden
Sabina Permaculture Team
- Jan Smart (USA): Vice-Chair, Children of Uganda (USA)
- Margaret Kasekende (Uganda): Country Director, Children of Uganda (Uganda)
- Rosemary Morrow (Australia): Project Site Designer and Advisor July 2008
- Dan Palmer (New Zealand): Project Co-Manager July-October 2008
- Amanda Cuyler (Australia): Project Co-Manager July-September 2008
- Mike Cloutier (Canada): Project Manager (November-December 2008)
- Clive Mullett and Kim Glasgow (Australia): Project Managers (January-December 2009)
- Michelle Sabato (Australia): Project Manager (January 2010)
- Cam and Symmone (Australia): Project Managers (February-May 2010)
- Kukula James (Uganda): Assistant FWS Program Manager Ongoing)
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Permaculture Workshop Evaluations
- "I think you have inspired us all to become permaculturists. Thank you all 100 times over for all you do!""
- "Many new ideas were discovered. Practical part was good that I learnt exactly how things are done."
- "It has been wonderful teaching...and I hope to teach other people the same I have got."
- "I have certainly understood the relevancy of permaculture in our community and perhaps the entire country. The happy co-operation of the facilitators has really brought me On Board!"
- "Teachers have been so wonderful with the best of knowledge. So social and collaborative."
- "Most of the teaching was a challenge, that one feels like practicing immediately."
- "So much was taught within such a short time. I wish more time could be given up for such an important and new idea."
The Team about to Arrive
June 26 2008
First Site Design Presentation
by Rowe and Dan
Our First Compost
the compost grows
Green is for Organic
and Orange for Plastics
3 comments:
Beautiful beautiful Sabina, the Pearl of Uganda! Thanks so much to the children, staff, and their brilliant permie mentors for bringing the dream to fruition, seedling by seedling, swale by swale!
By crikey that is one smart looking design! A big well done to Aunty Amanda. And with the swales all dug and the trees all planted, as Uncle Joseph said the day I left, "Now the trees are planting we cannot go backwards. We can only go forwards."
My friend Evelyn is from this area of Uganda. She says the smell of the soil after it rains is the most amazing thing...it smells so good!! She misses it. Kris
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