Mexico City (AP) – Jasmín Orgróñez looks at a wooden boat in the water that connects the labyrinth to Chinampas, the Aztecs of thousands of years.
“Let’s close our eyes and ask our mother to get sailing,” said when the boat was slow, unlike lingerenet Mexico City just a few miles.
The Ormóñez is one of the islands of the island, first created by mud from the bottom of the lakes he had covered. When the boat arrives on its island, he proudly showed leafy maize and vegetables grow. His ancestors concluded the Chinampas, but they had to buy this for the women who were traditionally never inherited.
“My grandmother didn’t find the earth. At that time, many left the hands of the people,” she said. Next to him, Cassandra Garduño listen. He did not inherit the Chinompa family.
Today both are part of a small but increasing women who bought via the ultimate attempt to maintain the most threatening environment threatened by Urban Development, many tourism and water pollution.
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Making their way in the men’s assignment was not easy. In Chinopas of Xochimilco Boroughco and San Gregorio Atlapulco, no woman worked for the world.
“People believe that their own men (only) physical skills are used,” Garduño said. Mud is colors in his yellow yellow shirt, compares his boots. He knows that his clothes are funny looks from the Indeltime Chinampa Cerfers, but instead of being offended, they find it funny.
After years, you return to San Gregorio in 2021 to surrender to Chinompula’s injury. He went to college and spent long time in Ecuador working on the efforts to protect radiation protection and Shark. Then one day he returned from San Gregorio and was struck by his country’s deterioration: Lowering levels of water, increasing waste, Chinumampa left.
“That’s when I started seeing you: ‘You are part of this space. And a part of your responsibility to protect,'” said.
After saving the year, he bought Chinompa – and was shocked to find in such a bad situation. The pieces found under the Armuviairs seats, television and beer bottles. She has worked to reopen the trenches filled with garbage and started growing crops.
Disminess in the midst of the neighbors were not perfect.
“They said: ‘Let us look, the girl never arrived, nobody knows. And she’s already doing what she wants,'” He remembers.
But he knew more than they thought.
Garduño had learned much as a young girlfriend Chinompa – “Paradise” full of flowers. He learned that the mud from the bottom of the kidney by a very good manure because it contains mineral-rich ash from worshipers around the Mexican city. Learn how to grow different crops keep a single crop and that flowers attract insects, so they don’t eat cabbage or so.
Sharing Information
“Chinampas can have eight circuits a year, and in some programs you may have two or three,” Garduño explains. That is why the Earch and Organition Organization of the United Nations saw Chinompas as one of the most common agricultural programs in the world. Today, his territory pot was colored: green broccoli yellow yellow yellow.
Since 2016, he has been working with the National Autoonanto University, advising other farmers who want to stop the Agrochemcals and return these traditional practices and to keep the ecosystem.
To kneel near the planting bed, Garduño suggests lifting you so it won’t be full of available location. Ormóñez is embedded. You bought the Chinampa three years ago and now you want to get “Etiqueta Chinampera, a” Tags tag that is offered to non-manufacturers, among other things, used mortar instead of Agrochemicals. With this label, their products can be sold at high prices.
There are 16 farmers who have received the label, the four of women said, Diana Laura Vázquez Mendoza, University Institute of Biology, added the project to “return their Chinodasi and productive.”
Cleaning the canals
Chinampas supported by the University, the filters made of water plants are installed to clean water and prevent the passing of carp and tilapia. Introducing Tshochimimico in the 1980s, these assault types became victims of the most popular citizenship: Mexico’s Salamander – such as the ASSOTTL.
Today, the Amphibian is near the annihilation due to the combination of these types and combinations pollutants: Sanitation – many tourism and the use of Agrochemicals in many agrocres.
“Chinampas is a natural agro-icosystem designed to provide food in pre-herpanic times to everyone. And that endures to this day,” said Maintoza. “So the Xochimilco’s last way will also store Chinompa.”
But traveling to the area in any given church makes it clear that few Chinampas are assigned to agriculture. Every weekend, hundreds of people came here to play soccer in Chinampas converted into fields or drinking on painted paintings known as “Trajineras.”
The impact of this change in Wetland appears: Finding polluted there, from heavy metals such as iron, Cadmium and pesticides, BIS BOJórquez Castro, Autonomonomonomous Metromolitan University. Most come from medical plants that release their water from XOchimimito and Chinampas using Agrochemicals, according to Castro’s course.
Preserved the remainder of the past
“See water clarity,” says Orgaló as he arrived in the center of his biofilter. You know that caring for water is important to preserve in this environment.
The water is a residual remorse for what was a large tenchtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire built in ponds once filled the Mexican district. Although today is the remainder of the XOchimimico which is only about 3% of the expansion of those ponds, is still important for the city.
If it would disappear, the general temperature of the capital may increase to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to the biologist Luis Zambrano. Xochimilco and San Gregorio and reduces floods in raintime, providing carbon dioxide reservoir and is a hundred for animal species, such as Tlalac Frog.
“Look at the birds with red heads in the lagoon pool!” Waring Garduño, driving home in the evening street after a long day in Chinampa.
To him, the one in Paradise wandered his grandparents. He is convinced that women are required to maintain chinodas and hope that within 10 years, many will be owned and care for them.
“From the workstopping of women and men, we can do what we all want, save what we have left as long as possible,” he said.
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