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I found a project that seems cool.

We are Pangaia, a small solarpunk farming community in the Amazon region of Peru. We aim to use permacultural traditions and methods to recover soil health on a farm that has been used for grazing cows and is completely degraded.

Many neighboring farms have been investing in fish farms or cattle, thus completely reshaping the land, destroying soil fertility and increasing CO2 as well as methane emissions.

We want to reverse this trend and empower small farming communities like ours to be part of the fight for climate justice.

In Pangaia, we value anti-oppression veganism and food justice as important pillars in the fight for social change. Our community has chosen the path of cooperation not only because of the overwhelming evidence for it but also because it brings out better qualities in ourselves. We are fortunate to be somewhat isolated from the claws of capitalist greed. This gives us the possibility of nurturing our altruism, solidarity and empathy, human qualities that are too neglected in patriarchal capitalist societies. Our community tries to place equal value on individual as well as our collective well-being. We are in a constant process of learning and unlearning, of setting aside old maps to draw them anew. It is not an easy path, but this time we know we have new stars to guide us, and lead humanity towards a shared future.

We are in the process of constituting a Cooperative of producers and consumers, as a way to implement solidary agriculture. Our aim is to produce for home consumption and for the consumers that are integrated in the cooperative.

Our dream is to contribute to the creation of a sustainable and fair food system, through the practice of permaculture and community supported agriculture. We are creating, seed by seed, a vibrant edible forest, in which a big variety of local species thrive on regenerated soil.

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