#milpa

Bio', Donají's cousin, is so shy that she works in the milpa at night, when everyone else in the village is asleep.

Earlier this year I tried a no dig garden in the backyard as an experiment. I've never successfully raised corn before so I was exceptionally pleased with the corn we got despite the plants themselves being a bit undersized. The potatoes were likewise a mitigated success. They were good sized but not very plentiful. Those were the Vivaldi potatoes the russet potatoes are still growing as I planted them later. I think the results are good enough to prove the feasibility of converting a big chunk of the backyard into our very own Milpa.

“Ecosystem Specific Polyculture Multi-Kingdom Guilds”