Indigenous women in North and Central America are coming together to share ancestral knowledge of amaranth, a plant booming in popularity as a health foodJust over 10 years ago, a small group of Indigenous Guatemalan farmers visited Beata Tsosie-Pena's stucco home in northern New Mexico. In the arid heat, the visitors, mostly Maya Achi women from the forested Guatemalan town of Rabinal, showed Tsosie-Pena how to plant the offering they had brought with them: amaranth seeds.Back then, Tsosie-Pena had just recently come interested in environmental justice amid frustration at the ecological challenges facing her native Santa Clara Pueblo - an Indigenous North American community just outside the New Mexico town of Espanola, which is downwind from the nuclear facilities that built the atomic bomb. Tsosie-Pena had begun studying permaculture and other Indigenous agricultural techniques. Today, she coordinates the environmental health and justice program at Tewa Women United, where she maintains a hillside public garden that's home to the descendants of those first amaranth seeds she was given more than a decade ago. Continue reading...
'It could feed the world': amaranth, a health trend 8,000 years old that survived colonization
6. srpna 2021 13:30
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/06/ancient-grain-amaranth-food-trend-indigenous
Zdroj: The Guardian