Gregory Pettys is the co-founder of Panya Forest, a seed/culture saving eco-village located in Northern Thailand that works closely with refugees, indigenous peoples and anyone striving to keep alive endangered ways of understanding our relationship with land, myth and each other. He and his wife regularly travel internationally to offer talks and experiential workshops about the importance of reclaiming not only actual ancestral seeds, but the myriad intergenerationally living educational modalities that coexist with each seed. He writes weekly on Substack about postactivism, ecovillage life, raising children in uncertain times, etc.
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The Future is Local and Female: Reflections from the Planet Local Summit
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