PERMACULTURE IN
UGANDA WITH MUGARURA CHARLES
How you came across
permaculture?
Am Charles Mugarura ,I grew as an orphan in Sabina home
under children of Uganda and Daughters of charity by then, it was 2008 when Dan
Palmer and Amada from Australia , visited my school and they made a
presentation on permaculture and global challenges due to the quick connection
to him I was able to join him as a helper first at the age of 16 , to implement
Permaculture Across Borders Project – Sabina permaculture Food and water
security program in the very home where I was raised since 1999 after the death
of my father, many children in the home never liked permaculture because
gardening at some point was recognized has a punishment especially in schools,
my participation, interest, passion and the relationship with Dan and Amada
gave me chance to be given a scholarship ,With my two close friends Nyero
by the Board Vice Chairman Jan Smart, as Gift after being touched
by our enthusiasm, passion, deep connection with people and work towards this
project. In 2012 December we sat for our PDC under Prof. Rosemary Morrow, Dan
Palmer and Amanda Cuyler in Uganda – Sabina and we were the youngest student in
the whole course with the best experience. From there I started doing external
social permaculture as I volunteer to meet farmers until I was invited to
design Permaculture project in Kenya, in
Uganda designing Bio Gas waste Management
and In Rwanda on a campaign of Tree Forest designing and home smart
Garden, I did non-money oriented seasonal contracts on gentleman’s agreement
with patterners, co-currently doing my high school-s.5 and s.6 and I would
attend to them on my holidays, it got me some money that contributed to my
personal welfare in school, during this process I made friends because I was
always not after the money, results were a priority.
In 2012 I started formulating a structure and working in my
business proposal focusing going commercial in terms of offering permaculture
services and organic products which gave birth to Broadfield Enterprises Uganda
ltd – permaculture Group private company which I registered in 29th
January 2016 with GREAT Support from my Closest friends Dan Lavoie, Denis Bo……,
Nyero Christopher and Julian Ainembabazi, who currently have legal shares. Am
currently running the establishment of permaculture Demonstration Unit in
Mityana on a temporarily period patternship as we look forward to settle on our
permanent land with support of my beloved family(Bowmans), which will increase
our commitment to development and Permaculture
Business share capital, we also strongly pattern with social
organization(NGO) for livelihood empowerment to eliminate poverty ,climate
change and health.
I have the experience to creatively implement commercial
income returns permaculture venture that at the same time solve community
challenges.
Why permaculture is
Important to go?
Am
deep in love with permaculture. Permaculture seeks to inspire a movement to
change the smallholder farming system in East Africa to shift from traditional
interventions of introducing ‘superior inputs’ to adapting a sustainable
culture that looks at the holistic picture of how they live and relate to the
natural eco system. Permaculture
main prescription for the food security, the highest risks of climate change,
sustainable livelihood challenge has been introduction and provision of
financing for ‘superior inputs’. Agencies such as; One Acre Fund, Technoserve,
are using this model. The mode has shown great success in increasing
productivity in the short run but has compounded the ‘extractive mind set of
the traditional farming system’ that assumes that soils will remain productive
as long as fertilizers are applied. Evidence shows that synthetic fertilizers
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