Exposition name:Equinoctial Mini Milpa Location: México City Date: Mar 2020
Description: The garden on the terrace of the building where I live began on March 21, 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown. In response to the uncertainty and isolation, I decided to create a pandemic garden on the rooftop—a living experiment rooted in the ancestral model of the milpa. I planted a variety of edible vegetables, grains, fruits, and medicinal herbs: corn, beans, pumpkins, amaranth, passion fruit, pineapples, watermelon, potatoes, muicle, aloe, mastuerzo, onions, garlic, estafiate, vaporub, rosemary, sugarcane, sage, damiana, cedrón, jasmine, chili peppers, brugmansias, peyote, and marijuana, among more than 100 other species. This mini milpa has been continuously documented for over a year, showing how the garden evolves, grows, and produces through the seasons. With minimal resources, it has yielded several harvests, becoming an ongoing act of resistance, sustainability, and care. The compost used is made from our own organic kitchen waste, closing the cycle of nourishment and regeneration. Some of the equinoctial harvests have included pumpkins, tomatoes, beans, corn, beets, and amaranth—fruits of a small ecosystem cultivated in resilience and intention.
