Oaxaca’s Pacific Coast Offers Biodiversity for NC State University Students
After five days around Oaxaca city and into the rural Tlacolula Valley, our group of 13 people boarded the Little Airplane That Could — the 13-passenger AeroTucan, for a 35-minute flight to Puerto Escondido. Over the next five days we would immerse ourselves in the the bio- and cultural diversity of Oaxaca’s Pacific Coast. There […]
Cultural Continuity and Sustainability in Oaxaca’s Tlacolula Valley
I thought it was important for the North Carolina State University Study Abroad students to spend an overnight in an indigenous Zapotec village while they were here in Oaxaca. So, I recommended to Professor Ricardo Hernandez that we include a stay in Teotitlan del Valle as as part of our itinerary. The students were here […]
Scavenger Hunt: NCSU Students Discover Oaxaca
The emphasis of the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Study Abroad Program in Oaxaca was on sustainability. How we develop as communities and nations depends upon how we provide for ourselves now and for future generations. These are complex issues that over the course of the 10 days in May 2019 that we were together, […]
Jumping for Joy at Oaxaca’s Jardin Etnobotanico — Ethnobotanical Garden
While I edit and process over 1,500 photos from last weekend’s WARP textile conference in Oaxaca, I thought I’d share with you the last set of photos from the May 2017 study abroad program with North Carolina State University Department of Horticultural Sciences from Oaxaca’s Ethnobotanical Garden. The garden was rescued from the hands of developers. […]
NCSU in Oaxaca: Crocodiles, Iguanas, Mangroves at Ventanilla Beach
It was a rollicking day in the skies over Oaxaca yesterday as I made my way back to Teotitlan del Valle from Puerto Escondido via Mexico City, where Tropical Storm Beatriz was having her way with us. Sheets of rain fell as I took off in the little Aeromar turboprop. In Huatulco, the news wasn’t […]
NCSU in Oaxaca: At Tierra del Sol Permaculture Farm
This week I’m traveling with twelve students, three faculty members and a videographer from North Carolina State University Department of Horticultural Science. It’s a study abroad program that I organized for Professors Ricardo Hernandez and Julieta Sherk. Many students are from rural North Carolina and have never been to Mexico before. They are studying sustainable […]
NCSU in Oaxaca: Monte Alban Archeological Site
Students and faculty from North Carolina State University Department of Horticultural Science are in Oaxaca for a study abroad course on Sustainability in Emerging Countries. Here’s what a few students say about our first day at Monte Alban. “We went to see Monte Alban first to give us background about Oaxaca and culture we are […]
North Carolina State University Comes to Oaxaca for Study Abroad
The Department of Horticultural Science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, is sending a group of sixteen people to Oaxaca to study organic agriculture, permaculture, indigenous farming techniques, and methods of converting native plants to dye materials, food and beverage. The group includes students, faculty members and a videographer who will document the week-long […]