By Tlalana | Coordination team
Hi from the Tlalaná Team!
This year seems to be filled with surprises and good news. Along with our usual group with El Chante de Todos, Enchúlame la Bici, Zekuollaz, and other youth collectives our group has a new addition, a project full of life, rhythm and music. On the other hand, our urban agriculture youth collective project is now yielding its first harvest: our first flowers, fruits and vegetables are here! Blackberries, green beans, pumpkin flower, lettuce, tomato, epazote, garlic, lavender and more! Read on to know more about what we have been up to.
DFBaila
We are very happy that a new collective has joined us in our quest for enhancing our community’s development. DFBaila defines themselves as a collective that “promotes the culture of dancing in couples to integrate their community through space management”. We are working with them so they can develop their project that involves life-skills, the rehabilitation of public spaces and the development of communities. Soon you will be learning more about them through our updates on our work together or you can explore their Facebook page and check out this review on one of Mexico City’s blogs on cultural activities: Melí Meló, where they talk a little bit about their methodology and their projects to recover parks and community bonds throughout Mexico City.
El sabio pensil
This is the name of our patch, it means “The wise garden” and we are learning a lot from it. We are now developing this plot of land, that used to be where people threw their trash and that we initially cleaned up completely before planting, with the participation of 15 young men and women who are aware and passionate about organic food and sustainable development and that live and work around our headquarters. Through this project we seek to raise awareness on our consumer habits and our capabilities to break this trend in our daily lives. We, as young people, have a crucial role in this because we will not only keep applying this knowledge in years to come, but because by proving stereotypes wrong and overcoming other systemic and structural difficulties we can have a major impact on our communities. So far we have picked blackberries, lettuce, green beans, garlic, epazote, chive, green tomato, purple mustard, raddish, potato, coriander, lavender flower, parsley, fava beans, pumpkin flower, labiada and mint. We are looking forward to increasing our production and improving our irrigation system and water collection infrastructure.
With your help we can do this and more!
If you are interested on what we do don’t forget to check out and like our Facebook page (in spanish). We regularly update the information available on each of the collectives of the Tlalaná Network and other relevant information.
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