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Trail of corn

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Commenced:	01/01/2012
Submitted:	24/02/2013
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Mixteca alta de Oaxaca, Yutenino, Oaxaca, MX
Website:	www.hombresdemaiz.com.mx
Climate zone:	Cool Temperate

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Trail of corn

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Rural, Intentional Communities, Community, School Projects, Philanthropic aid, Demonstration, Educational

Project Summary

Capacitation in permaculture, natural construction and agriculture of the indigenous people of the mountains of Oaxaca.

Project Description

On the occasion of the talks held with Dr. Ruiz Medrano Ethelia concern to help solve the problems and shortcomings of the Oaxacan Mixteca, more specifically in a community called Yutenino, located 10 Km from Tlaxiaco, we decided to perform our Route maize 2012 in Oaxaca through the kind assistance of Dr. Ethelia and that's how the 4th to January 16th, 2012, we had the honor and privilege to work and train 250 community members Yutenino with the latest techniques in Bio intensive farming, Natural Building (adobe superadobe and stabilization) land restoration, composting systems and natural farming.

Our intention in this Route Corn was to partner with Dr. Ethelia in their quest for a better quality of life for the inhabitants of the Mixteca Alta of Oaxaca in the town of Cuquila "Ñuu Kuini" or people of the tiger. Hombres de Maíz main mission and the reason for its creation was precisely to bring others the skills and knowledge necessary for them to get their food self-sufficiency, water, energy and housing.

It was a great pleasure for us to be able to live, eat and enjoy next to this beautiful and hardworking comudidad of Yutenino, which opened their doors and their hearts. Since then, a powerful but invisible bond that unites us in community work d elograr self-sufficiency and a better quality of life. We thank the local native corn samples we received from some of its inhabitants, which are copies of wealth in precious flavor and color of these lands undoubtedly take care of them.

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