Artes de México en Utah and Summit Community Gardens & EATS hosted a traditional Mayan ceremony to help children connect with ...

Tuesday's event held a peaceful feeling. As guests sat in reverence, Maria Elena Lowe began a blessing in her native tongue ...

It is one of the chile varieties grown in the ancient Milpa system of community gardening with companion planting using corn, beans, squash, amaranth, sunflowers and chile to feed and sustain the ...

Many Costa Ricans maintain a small garden space—often a 5-by-5-meter patch—dedicated to growing corn, known as a milpa. Although some seed stores offer hybrid sweet corn tailored for tropical ...

but fears that genetically modified seeds could contaminate these ancient varieties have led to bans on certain U.S. imports. Laurencia Melo grows corn on her family's milpa, an agricultural ...

Today’s Mexican food is a byproduct of an ancient diet and farming technique known as milpa. “It’s a traditional Mesoamerican ...

The technique has been around for millennia.” Think of milpa along the same lines of the Mediterranean diet. It encompasses specific foods; tomatoes, avocado, and jicama are additional examples.