This region near Mexico City is teeming with vegetal life and within it, ancestral knowledge. However, this plant-based knowledge is at risk of being lost due to global warming and patterns of migration. To preserve it, we propose the innovative creation of a regional herbarium by local artists and educators. This herbarium will consist not only of exemplars of plant species, but also of oral histories in the form of recorded audio interviews. In the future, the herbarium will include a guide for schools and commissioned work by artists designed to engage new audiences.
Calpulli Tecalco is an organisation that works to preserve the cultural and ecological patrimony of the Indigenous cultures of the southern Basin of Mexico.
