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Michael Commons

Wanakaset Network Thailand

I am part of the Wanakaset Network in Thailand and practice organic forest gardening and self-reliance with my family. My core work is to support regenerative agriculture through value chain development and to facilitate sharing and exchange of local knowledge of farmers and elders around ecological self-reliance to facilitate adoption and adaptation of such wisdom to improve our planetary and community health.

I practice organic forest gardening + self-reliance with my family in Chachoengsao, Thailand being part of the Wanakaset Network. Also I am an active member of the Thai Permaculture network and the Agricultural Biodiversity Community. My primary work is on developing Regenerative Value Chains after many years with Earth Net Foundation, Thailand supporting small-scale farmers with organic farming, fair trade development, and climate change resilience.

Primary interests: Social (Lifelong Education); Culture (Wisdom & Innovation); Integral Design (Whole Systems Thinking); Ecology (Ecosystem Restoration, Seeds, Food & Soil); Economy (Banking & Exchange, Sharing & Collaboration, Social Entrepreneurship)

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Wanakaset Network Thailand

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  • Region: GENOA
  • Languages: Thai, English

Wanakaset Network is a community of practitioners of “Wanakaset” ecological self-reliance based on forest gardening first taught by Pooyai Viboon Khemchalerm. His home in Sanam Chaikhet, Chachoengsao is the meeting place for this network of farmers who mostly live around the Eastern Forest. A simple summary of the Wanakaset concept is Biodiversity + Knowledge = Abundance. … Read more