Using camera traps, a dab of Calvin Klein’s Obsession perfume and other chemical essences that smell of fermented fruit, eggs and hormones, biologist Sergio Pérez Contreras set about researching the…
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Ixtlán de Juárez is a Zapotec community nestled in the Sierra Norte de Oaxaca that has managed to establish a connection with the land to conserve and use its wealth… -
Since 2009, in the Pátzcuaro-Zirahuén region of Michoacán, Red Tsiri (“tsiri” is the Purépecha word for maize) has attempted to recover the gastronomic, cultural and agricultural wealth represented by local… -
Peasants in the fertile lands of Michoacán always add a few kernels of red maize to the seed. “Our ancestors believed that red cobs would protect farm work,” remarks Javier… -
“Without agaves, there would be no tlachiqueros; without tlachiqueros there would be no pulque; and without pulque, there’s nothing; no parties or fun” –tlachiquera Teresa de Jesús García. Nopal cactuses… -
Interview with Tere García, a tlachiquera (a person who extracts agave nectar) from Otumba in the State of Mexico. Teresa de Jesús García González was born 28 years ago in… -
Interview with Maximino Garcia, coffee producer “Why me and not the others?” wondered Mixtec farmer Maximino Gonzalo García Pérez, while everyone…
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If you look at a map, you will see that Zaragoza lies at the end of a winding, rocky road after a 10-hour journey. We traveled to this community in the heart of the Sierra Madre del Sur…
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El caficultor Félix Faustino García Don Felix Faustino García watched as coffee leaf rust spread through the state, expanding further and further every year until one day it reached the…
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The February air whistled through our clothes that chilly morning in Santa María Yucuhiti, Oaxaca. However, the cold did not seem to deter the group of 10 young people who had turned up to do bird monitoring…
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