Me and my grandpa in Kentucky My grandfather grew up on a family farm in rural Kentucky where his parents and siblings produced what they...

We left from the city of San Cristobal early at 5:30am to travel to a community where different rural development projects are underway....

Burnt mango trees Today we traveled to a community where our plan for the day was to help prune fruit trees. Pruning fruit trees...

Today we visited a community on the coast of Chiapas where a small group of concerned community members are organizing around...

Sapote fruit and tree Visiting a Family Ranch and Farm on the Coast of Chiapas Today we were welcomed into a loud and lively home where...

A group of women developing home gardens and milpa systems joined a workshop about Super Plus Fertilizer. We started off by collecting...

We took a trip from the mountainous highlands of San Cristobal de Las Casas (where the altitude is 2,200 meters above sea level) to the...

Maize ready to harvest in Los Altos, Chiapas I recently began an internship with a rural development organization in San Cristobal de Las...

When I first started learning about agroecology, I was introduced to the preparation of Mountain Microorganisms for the first time. Now,...

This year at the Ranch they have had some challenges growing a good tomato harvest. Chelo (the agroecological specialist) gave the...

There are many ways to prepare a garden bed, but this is the way they do it at Rancho Lum Ha'! We dig out the bed and add organic...

Moxviquil campus At a Slow Foods event in Chiapas I met a young woman, Adeleina (Ade for short), who is studying at the Institute...

The pesky white butterfly!! When I first started visiting Rancho Lum Ha I thought "Wow how beautiful are all of these abundant...

As you can see, there is something to look at on every street of San Cristobal de Las Casas. Colorful houses, flowers, trees, cactuses,...

This syntropic garden that has a diversity of plants-- squash, sunflowers, sugar cane, cappuchinas, buckwheat, mustard plants,...

Mar showing us their worms for sale! Would you like some pet worms? My friends Chelo and Mar from the collective JAMA can teach you how...

Mountains and Cornfields. The drive to Rancho Lum Ha' During our 45-minute drive to Rancho Lum Ha', I gaze out the window of Chelo's...

Chelo teaching producers from Honduras to make organic fungicide If we want more farmers to be able to practice agreocological methods,...

Today we needed to replenish the liquid bio-fertilizer (biol, in Spanish) at the Ranch. Liquid bio-fertilizers contain benefic...

Fernando and I flipping the Bokashi Fernando is the young man from the local community who is in charge of the production of Bokashi-- a...