An incredible sight, the floating gardens of Mexico City have a history dating back over 3,000 years! These man-made islands grow delicious fruits and vegetables to help feed the fifth largest city in the world. Today, over 90% of the islands are abandoned, threatening to extinguish a critical link to the farming history of Mexico.
We met up with Ricardo, the founder of De la Chinampa, an organization which works with the farmers of the floating town of Xochimilco to supply some of the top restaurants in Mexico City with delicious produce. That help doesn't end with sales, either. De la Chinampa trains future farmers, restores chinampas, and promotes the techniques of these unique farms. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987, the canals and islands were formed by farmers during the Toltec era and later the Aztecs, with the peak of production around 1600AD. With the severe declines over many generations of farming, today less than 10% of the available chinampas are actively used as farmland. De la Chinampa aims to reverse that trend, and we toured one of their active farms to see how farmers grow delicious crops in the middle of a lake.
Our thanks again to Ricardo from delachinampa.mx for providing his time, knowledge and a tour of the chinampas with a delicious meal along the way!
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