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

Juana and Faustino from DESMI April 18, 2024 A Conversation about Community-Based Work in Agroecology: To continue my journey of visiting organizations that work in areas of agroecology and rural development in San Cristobal de Las Cases, today I visited the office of DESMI. I was received by two of DESMI's workers, Faustino and Juana. We sat in their library where we were surrounded by a collection of books about the history of Chiapas, rural development, and agrarian studie

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. As soon as we arrived, the paved road abruptly turned into a rocky, bumpy dirt road. As we arrived into the community, we could see women and children waiting next to water spigots where water was hardly trickling out. April is the peak of the dry, hot season before the rain comes. Mitontic has scarce underground water sources and this is a

The Team as CISERP: From left to right: Yareni, me, Cielo Lourdes, and Adolfo (not pictured-- Vicente) April 15, 2023 Arriving to CISERP, the Center for Research and Professional Services El Centro de Investigación y Servicios Profesionales After spending a month in Honduras at the Organic Learning Center farm, I traveled up to Chiapas, Mexico. Here I stayed in the town of San Cristobal de Las Casas-- a colorful, colonial town in the mountains of the central highlands of Chia