2023-11-03 13:00:00
Guadalajara Jalisco.
If you have already decided to feed yourself consciously and start your urban garden at home, you are not alone.
There is a network of orchard growers in Jalisco that accompanies those who begin on this path and with this change. And it doesn’t matter how far they are from each other: they go and visit each other to do “tequio” (community work).
During the month of August, members of various groups located in Guadalajara were to make “tequio” at the Los García garden: Maricela’s, who I told you regarding in previous installments, to help her.
After hours of work, everyone shares the table and prepares the food they grew themselves. Products and seeds are exchanged and they remind each other that they are not alone and that those moments are worth planting independently and responsibly.
In Guadalajara, to give another example, there is a corner in the Revolución neighborhood called “Orchard in the Neighborhood” what nation in 2020.
Aha: in the middle of a pandemic. AND In this space, people are trained to make gardens at home, to harvest their food and eat healthier.
Huerto en el Barrio is led by Akometer and Miriam Torres. She shares What are you looking for this community space.
“One of the missions of Huerto en el Barrio is to share, that people can come to help and feel part of this, that with a little bit they contribute more things can be done, exchanges, that they tell us, for example, we can go to paint, come and paint and we will give you the food, the drink,. The point here is to become a community, it is a place for everyone“We always invite people to share, teach and also use their knowledge.”
During the week they have various activities that involve not only the neighborhood, but people from other neighborhoods, cities and even other states. They give low-cost or sometimes free workshops that provide tools to survive in independent planting and the exchange of knowledge and products.
Akometer invites people to This space.
“No institute or government has anything to do with it here.Here we believe in people, in the talent and brilliance of people. Come to Huerto en el Barrio, you will be surprised by what we do. We are working people, we are people who earn money day by day to continue generating and it is very nice to earn money through the right. Come see Huerto en el Barrio because we are nourishing the neighborhood.”
Just this Self-organization is what the Urban Garden Law does not contemplateand on the contrary wants to limit it by setting parameters on how these four types of gardens should be organized and what they should be: family, private, community and educational.
That is to say, a law can stop community organizations that only seek to grow their own food. That’s exactly what happened when Orchard, Rage and Memory collective tried to plant corn in the central median of Federalismo Avenue, and its members were encapsulated and taken to the dividers for two hours.
“Let’s open the range before passing a law that may bring privatization risks or that allows land to be more available for commercial purposes than for community spaces. “That would be the discussion.”
On October 16, the Urban Agriculture Network of the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara issued a statement in which it distances itself from the agreements that emerged in 2020, in the working tables with the Institute for Planning and Management of the Development of the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara (Imeplan).
According to what they said, this document had other purposes, but In the end the authority uses it as an argument to legitimize the participation of these groups of urban gardens to create the law promoted by deputy Alejandra Giandans Valenzuela.
A law that, now, has raised alarms due to its intention to control the land, the water and those who work on it.
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