Awakening Ancestral Memories and Indigenous Knowing without any written records

This is an excerpt from a longer presentation that you can watch here: https://gavinmounsey.substack.com/p/designing-bio-cultural-refugia

The title of the talk that above excerpt is from is:

Designing Bio-cultural Refugia : seeding ancient wisdom in the fertile soils of modern Regenerative knowledge

In my presentation I explore the concept of refugia (both cultural and biological forms) and then discuss the immense potential we can unlock when we combine them in one space. I explore terms like ethnoecology and talk about pathways to intentionally create regenerative counter-cultures (aka “ethnogenesis”) and how we might each explore ancestral wisdom and apply ancient regenerative worldviews in our modern gardens and designs. I invite you to come on a journey to learn about how some ecologically literate and socially advanced ancient cultures preserved, propagated and applied place based wisdom without the existence of a centralized state authority. This will be a call to remember, rediscover, reconnect and gather the shards of our often shattered ancestral cultural past and merge those shards with the resilient substance of modern ecological knowledge and regenerative soil science. Talk a walk with me to gather ancient seeds and plant them in a garden of hope for future generations.