Mexican Crescencio Hernández orders radishes, herbs and lettuce for shipment to an alternative market in west-central Mexico ...

The Chinampas of Mexico They are highly productive farm plots surrounded on at least three sides by canals. Created in an ancient drainage project, they were the economic foundation of the Aztec ...

Plant your vegetables on top, and watch them thrive! Chinampas, often referred to as “floating gardens,” were developed by ...

More than 1,000 years ago, Xochimilca people in the region invented an agricultural system of human-made floating islands ...

The basis of the system is founded on corn, beans and chili; unique farming methods such as milpas (rotating swidden fields of corn and other crops) and chinampas (man-made farming islets in lake ...

Xochimilco, which preserves the final traces of the pre-Hispanic era transportation system and chinampas, pre-Hispanic ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. For millennia, people have relied on human excrement or “night soil” as a source of agricultural fertilization. Following ...

This year’s festival, Food for Thought, offers lectures, a film, a panel discussion, and more around the critically important ...

Most of the middle two-thirds of the Corn Belt is now the driest it has been in over 100 years according to official weather data.

Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988, the 3000 hectare cultural landscape of the Chinampas region is home to a sustainable agriculture system that is prehispanic in origin. The park ...

The food truck-turned-brick and mortar spot for classic Thai dishes has announced a second location in the works on the ...

RAPIDS CITY — Thai Town Café, the food truck-turned-brick and mortar spot for classic Thai dishes, has announced plans to expand to a second location. In a Facebook post recapping their ...