About (taken from: losguardianesdelmaiz.com/story):
“For thousands of years, native farmers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca have kept alive a system of seed exchanges that, like oral almanacs, have brought the collective knowledge of traditional milpa farming methods into the Twenty-first Century.”
Los Guardianes del Maiz tells the story of the seed exchange at Ejido Unión Zapata and the indigenous farmers that continue to keep this traditional farming practice alive in the face of “growing ecological catastrophe.”
News:
Professor Gustavo Vazquez received the Golden Earth award for Best Documentary Feature at the Citadella Geo Film Festival in Citadella, Italy,