
WLP Collaborate and Accelerate Event 2009
Earlier this summer you first heard just a little about
Living Legacy Ben Murray who attended our
WLP Collaborate and Accelerate event! Since that time Mr. Murray has been very busy as he prepares to take his efforts in the Environment and Eco Development Cornerstone to the next level!
Ben has spent the majority of the last year on his eco community project “Eco-Aldaya Caimito” in Caimito, Ecuador. There he’s worked with his partner Tanya Di Benadito to restore original forestation, create a permacuture training center and working with locals to help them become more sustainable. Mr. Murray states, “It has certainly been more than a one directional experience and that they have learned much about life, the land and the connected human experience.” “That they’ve learned as much as they’ve come to teach.”

Ben instructing on Permaculture techniques at the summer workshop.
Ben and his partner have been able to help the local women expand their community kitchen and learn how to utilize the local banking model set up by a Peace Corps volunteer that has allowed everyone involved to work together for mutual benefit. Ecuador is rich in a vast variety of fruits not well known in many other countries that are not conducive to export, however Ms. Di Benadito has taught the local women there how to make jellies, jams, chutneys, etc, which are! In fact, there are hopes to be able to carry some of these gourmet treats in the WLP World Market in 2010.
Additionally, Ben has been very busy stateside, with additional training and working with community farms and early permaculture models in N. California. Literally, going from the WLP summer event to The Carbon Farming Course Series, a 6 week training at the The Farm – Eco Village Training Center in Summertown, TN. The series was designed by graduates from Gaia University, in conjunction with leading edge innovators in the Permaculture movement, Appleseed Permaculture, Regenerative Design Institute and Hodgepodge Collective.

Summer Workshop Food Forest Techniques
Although he found all the information and the experts there to surpass his expectations, he was significantly impressed with the results of “rotation grazing” and it’s benefit to the entire environment and food chain cycle. Using very specific grazing techniques with cattle, pigs and chickens they were able to create up to four to five inches of new live top soil while providing to the market organic meat and poultry.

Eco Aldaya - Terracing the hillside on contour
Ben’s love affair with the earth began in his early teens when he became passionate about how the land and particularly water interacted and affected each other. He began experimenting in his own back yard in Boulder, CO creating swails and observing how more natural directed rainfall effected the immediate environment. It became clear to him this would be a life long pursuit and his legacy has only just begun!
Mr. Murray will be a guest on the WLP’s BlogTalkRadio show on November 16, 2009, where he will be discussing the basic understanding of leading edge solutions for the future of food. He will be talking about the meaning of terms such as permaculture, food forests, carbon farming and rotation grazing and giving simple tips for how anyone can improve their personal legacy in these areas!
You can join us in following Ben’s legacy through the “Legacy Showcase” on the World Legacy Project website!





WLP BLOGTALKRADIO Show – Evolution of Solution
Permaculture: The Gateway to True Abundance with LL Ben Murray
Host: Living Legacy Malcolm Watson
In this week’s World Legacy Project Blogtalkradio show, Evolution of Solution, we are talking with Living Legacy, Ben Murray. Our subject is Permaculture, This term is derived from permanent agriculture, and is all about the design and application of how we get our food, energy, shelter and other material and non material needs in a fully sustainable fashion. The philosophy behind permaculture is one of “working with” nature, rather than attempting to handle it or change it..
Ben has been involved in Permaculture projects from Nova Scotia to Brazil and Equador and will go into such topics as:
• What Permaculture, is really about.
• How it can be the gateway to creating a future of true abundance for the entire human family.
• The need for regeneration. A big step above and beyond sustainability.
• How each of us can play our part and contribute to creating this true abundant life.
• What carbon has to do with agriculture and farming.
• How we can resolve global warming with the use of cattle and regenerate our topsoils at the same time.
As we can see this whole subject is very important in becoming aware of living our legacy and learning how each one of us can become highly effective in creating and contributing to a life and legacy of true abundance and sustainability.
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