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Chinampas: Lucio Usobiaga on Mexico's Floating Farms

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Chinampas: Lucio Usobiaga on Mexico's Floating Farms

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Key Takeaways

Explore the ancient yet relevant chinampas farming system in Mexico and its modern revival through Arca Tierra.

  • Chinampas are ancient floating gardens.
  • They offer a sustainable farming model.
  • Arca Tierra promotes local chinampa agriculture.
  • Learn about their construction and modern fate.
  • Compost transport on water is a unique challenge.

Why It Matters

Understanding chinampas provides insights into historically sustainable and productive agricultural methods, offering lessons for contemporary food systems and water management.

What to Do Next

Listen to the full podcast to learn how chinampas work and their current role in Mexican agriculture.

Recommended for: Anyone interested in historical agricultural methods, sustainable food systems, or unique ecological solutions to food production.

Welcome to episode 378 of Growers Daily! We cover: Last week I caught up with Lucio Usobiaga of Arca Tierra in Mexico, and it's hard to describe everything that this organization does. Their focus is to promote and encourage local agriculture in and around the chinampas – the famed floating gardens – in Mexico and so they aggregate a lot of food from that area. So Lucio and I talk about that. We talk about the chinampas as well—what they are, how they work (like ever think about how to get compost out to a garden on lake?), how they were created, and what their current fate is. It's a fascinating and wide ranging conversation We are a Non-Profit! 👇  🙌  DONATE 🙌 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hostedbuttonid=ALF4MZX26SVSQ https://app.candid.org/profile/16047666   Links for today:    Arca Tierra: https://www.arcatierra.com/ Arca Tierra Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arca.tierra/   MUSIC from this episode:  Endless by Victor Lundberg via www.epidemicsound.com   Support our work (👊) at https://www.notillgrowers.com/support  or https://www.Patreon.com/notillgrowers   Show Sponsors:  Rimol Greenhouses: https://rimol.com/   GrownBy: coop.grownby.com/notill   Good Agriculture: https://goodagriculture.com/   Tilth Soil!: https://www.tilthsoil.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorYMGkYzMqYdJ8KDqTdMFUg5tw3lxOSMBZPP6phSXpFhBIyUkT     MY BOOK!   The Living Soil Handbook 📕 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingsoilhandbook   French copy of The Living Soil Handbook: https://amzn.to/4h2bYot   Italian Copy https://www.terranuovalibri.it/libro/dettaglio/jesse-frost/il-manuale-del-suolo-vivente-9788866819967-236828.html German Copy: https://www.oekom.de/buch/das-grosse-boden-handbuch-9783987261374     Other stuff and ways to support stuff like this 👇 5% off Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizers and More (offer Code: NOTILL) 👀: https://store.turbify.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-20803342241356+tt4W2F+shop.html+NOTILL🚨    ORDER Dan Brisebois' Seed Book! 👉 https://www.notillgrowers.com/livingso

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