Avocado farms–mostly supplying the U.S. market–dominate water resources in the Mexican town of Angahuan, forcing Indigenous P’urhépecha healers to buy clean water to keep their medicinal plants alive.
ANGAHUAN, Mexico “Cuchita is the fourth-generation herb collector of our family,” says Juana Bravo, 45, pointing to a photo of her niece. “Look here: she was picking medicinal plants in the mountains when she was only one and a half years old.” Maria de Jesus, called Cuchita, now 9, still shares that same passion […]