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In Mexico City, Aztec-Era Floating Gardens Offer a Path to Sustainable Eating Megan Zhang © Getty Our Here, Now column looks at trends taking hold in cities around the world, and gives you the low-down on how to experience them the next time you re in town. In the southern reaches of Mexico City, densely populated neighborhoods give way to the intricate canal system of Xochimilco Ecological Park, a 400-acre reserve with patches of farmland that appear to float in the water. Remnants of the Aztec civilization that once occupied this region, these “floating gardens” are known as chinampas. “They were trying to create new land, fertile land, explains Francisco Paco Juárez, while we row through the canals of Xochimilco in his kayak. The chinampas, he says, allowed the Aztecs to reclaim arable earth from what was once a vast lake unconducive to farming. As we float along, Juárez gestures to a migratory great egret swooping overhead, and points out diff

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