As climate chaos accelerates, traditional varieties often fail under extremes of heat, drought, and flooding. Communities are turning to locally adapted, open-pollinated seeds and grassroots breeding programs to ensure food systems survive and thrive in a changing world. These climate-hardy seeds are becoming the ultimate resilience tool. Greg and Bill will reveal the path necessary to take to understand how to create these climate-hardy seeds and become more seed resilient.

Join us for a monthly discussion featuring diverse voices from across the permaculture landscape. Each month, a new teacher will share 30–35 minutes of core concepts—rooted in ethics, principles, and practical action—followed by lively Q&A and a few parting seeds to plant in your own life.​Whether you're just discovering permaculture or seeking to reconnect with its deeper patterns, these sessions are an ideal mycelial touchpoint to local PDCs and global movements alike!

Next, we turn to global seed storage and the industrial world’s seed bank system: CGIAR. Each year, roughly 90,000–100,000 seed samples are distributed to researchers, breeders, and farmers under the framework of the International Plant Treaty. We’ll look at what this system is designed to do — and ask how that compares with how it actually functions in today’s world.