Chinampero

Summary Miguel Valle and his sons, Javier and Marco, are the second generation of a family devoted to a vanishing lifestyle: cultivating vegetables and flowers on the traditional raised beds known as chinampas. They practice the ancient farming method the Mesoamerican cultures, who created one of the world's most beautiful floating cities, Xochimilco. Miguel Valle married very young and from the time he became responsible for a family he undertook to ensure that they would not want for anything, fining that the earth, when worked properly, is an inexhaustible source of food. Thus, he started farming a chinampa, and although he found work at the post office, he never stopped planting his crops. Over the years he acquired a plot in the emblematic canals of Xochimilco, where to this day he continues to practice the area's millenarian farming tradition, which uses neither chemicals nor fertilizers. It is the wisest way to grow crops.

S2.E4 ∙ Chinampero

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Genres : Documentary

Countries of origin : Mexico

Official sites : Company Name Official site

Language : Spanish

Production companies : Gravedad Cero Films Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano

Summary Miguel Valle and his sons, Javier and Marco, are the second generation of a family devoted to a vanishing lifestyle: cultivating vegetables and flowers on the traditional raised beds known as chinampas. They practice the ancient farming method the Mesoamerican cultures, who created one of the world's most beautiful floating cities, Xochimilco. Miguel Valle married very young and from the time he became responsible for a family he undertook to ensure that they would not want for anything, fining that the earth, when worked properly, is an inexhaustible source of food. Thus, he started farming a chinampa, and although he found work at the post office, he never stopped planting his crops. Over the years he acquired a plot in the emblematic canals of Xochimilco, where to this day he continues to practice the area's millenarian farming tradition, which uses neither chemicals nor fertilizers. It is the wisest way to grow crops.

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Genres : Documentary

Countries of origin : Mexico

Official sites : Company Name Official site

Language : Spanish

Production companies : Gravedad Cero Films Sistema Público de Radiodifusión del Estado Mexicano

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