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Bookmark or Share- Milpas in Mexico: maintaining an ancient farming system | KewBy Charlotte Phillips. For at least 7,000 years, farmers in Mexico and throughout Mesoamerica, have been growing crops using a traditional and efficient farming system called the milpa. The system uses intercropping, meaning many different crop species are grown together in the same space, similar to companion planting in allotments, here in ...
- MILPA CYCLE | MESOAMERICAN Research Center - UC Santa BarbaraThe milpa cycle involves two years of cultivation and eight years of fallow, or secondary growth, to allow for natural regeneration of vegetation. As long as this rotation continues without shortening fallow periods, the system can be sustained indefinitely. Resources on the Milpa Cycle.
- The Maya milpa: fire and the legacy of living soil - Nigh - 2013 ...Here, we examine the contemporary milpa, a type of swidden agriculture common to Latin America and historically used by the Maya people of the lowlands of southern Mexico and northern Central America; we focus on one group in particular, the Lakandon people of Chiapas.
- Sustainable milpa farming: Preserving an ancient Maya traditionMilpa is a type of sustainable farming historically practiced by the Maya in the Yucatán and other parts of Mesoamerica. The polyculture milpas are planted with numerous crops, such as beans, corn, peppers, and gourds, for local community consumption rather than supporting a single crop for economic value like modern monoculture commercial farms.
- Maize intercropping in the milpa system. Diversity, extent and ...The milpa is a traditional agricultural system in which maize is intercropped with other species, such as common beans, faba beans, squashes or potatoes. Our study shows that more than two-thirds...
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