Locavores in Oaxaca: Eat Local and Who Makes Our Food
People in the Oaxaca valley have eaten locally grown corn, beans, squash, tomatoes, poultry and fruit for centuries, long before the term locavore came into existence. The farm-to-table movement in the United States is one example of eating fresh food produced within 100 miles. During the years I lived on an organic farm in Pittsboro, […]
NAFTA, Hybrid Corn, Oaxaca Milpas and Climate Change: Which Corn Will Survive?
June 16, 2010, The Nation, Retreat to Subsistence by Peter Canby http://www.thenation.com/article/36330/retreat-subsistence Here is a lengthy and worthwhile article written about the breakdown of NAFTA promises and the pressure on the indigenous Oaxaca farmer to give up small plot farming of native corn, beans and squash (milpas) in favor of supposedly more highly productive hybrid […]