We visited an organic farm that students of the Guarani tribe are able to help with. This is great because this agriculture uses less pesticides which promotes cleaner water run off! Within the law, the health department is responsible for providing this indigenous Aldeia (village or tribe) with water. They have pumps outside of homes that they pump water from.
They recently started harvesting a nut called Urukum with little red berries inside, which they are in the process of selling them to be used for makeup. They tasted pretty yummy too!
This was a mandioca plant, a very popular food in Brazil, with almost a potato like texture. They are so delicia! The flour is used to make pao de queijo (cheese bread, also very famous).
The pictures below are also from a different farm that was a good distance outside of Campo Grande consisting of a Quilombola. This is, a community constituted by descendents of enslaved africans who maintain cultural conditions, religions, and substinence for centuries. Mato Grosso do Sul has 2 Quilombos and 10 or 11 are in the process of being revived. They use very old practices still, for example a wood mill and a horse to turn it.
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