Harvesting cassava, pumpkins, mandarines and corn from the milpa Today during this visit to rural communities in Tumbalá, Chiapas, we saw...

Sometimes field visits move at the pace of the community. When we arrive to give workshops and check up on projects like the home...

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

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

Chico 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...

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...

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...

Preparing a Garden Bed at Rancho Lum Ha' After three months in Guatemala, I decided to return back to Chiapas, Mexico. Since Southern...

Yareni, Cielo Lourdes, Adelina, and I preparing guacamole for the Slow Food event Preparing Food Together My friends from CISERP invited...

Juana and Faustino from DESMI April 18, 2024 A Conversation about Community-Based Work in Agroecology: To continue my journey of visiting...

April 24, 2024 The bumpy road to Mitontic Arriving to Mitontic We took a two and a half hour drive north to the municipality of Mitontic....

The Team as CISERP: From left to right: Yareni, me, Cielo Lourdes, and Adolfo (not pictured-- Vicente) April 15, 2023 Arriving to CISERP,...