More pictures! We visited my professors peanut and milpa farm, a certified organic/fair trade coffee village that also grew sugarcane and banana, an organization in the city that supports small coffee farmers, a restaurant that is trying to highlight traditional varieties of corn, a visit to some petrified waterfalls, and a festival on Palm Sunday centered on a drink that is native to a village called Huayapam.
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Peanut plant on our professors farm |
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we saw some crazy looking oxen |
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milpa: corn, squash, and beans |
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San Bartolome Loxicha |
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Israel talking with us on his coffee plot which is literally on the side of a mountain |
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Sunset view from next to our house of the pueblo, those are banana trees |
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Puppy and a snapping turtle |
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Some interesting art.. |
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"eat healthy food" |
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bananasss |
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"we want a world with the easy-drug mafia. reject drugs." |
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coffee plants in the nursery |
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banarnar tree |
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school yard |
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coffee beans with black bugs eating away the bean |
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healthy beans. there are two beans per "grano" berry |
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banana leaf |
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hosing off the bananas so we could eat them |
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wonderfully awkward picture of me and adrianna eating the best bananas |
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mural outside Sustainable Harvest |
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coffee tasting |
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Restaurant featuring traditional corn types, this drink has corn, chocolate, and cinnamon |
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murals in the city |
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we visited a federal 5 yr farming university "Instituto Tecnologico del Valle de Oaxaca" |
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they had test farms and learning facilities for livestock care, organic practices, etc |
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my friend Elena's host parents breed puppies to sell |
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Hierve del Agua, calcified waterfalls, a saturday away from the city |
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there is a ton more water flowing down the mountainside apparently when its less dry |
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the water was pretty freezing but a nice break from the sweltering heat that has not let up for a good while... |
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at the tejate (a pre-hispanic corn drink) festival in Huayapam |
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some mega cute chia pets for Easter |
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Beautifully woven palms for Palm Sunday |
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tamales in corn leaves and banana leaves, also the pink ones are sweet tamales |
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there was a ridiculous number of people, the entire pueblo center was packed shoulder to shoulder |
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line waiting to bless the palms |
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a favorite cafe decked out with decorations and an alter for Easter |
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me and Codi slurping on some Horchata (rice milk and melon drink) |
Love, Amanda