Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years; now they’re threatened Amid urbanization, new generation aims to rekindle interest in fading practice ...

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In a recent number of the China Review Dr. Macgowan describes the manner in which floating fields and gardens are formed in China. In the month of April a bamboo raft, 10 feet to 12 feet long and ...

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In Xochimilco, floating gardens offer a glimpse of Mexico City’s past Riley Robinson/Staff WATER WORLD: A man fishes at dawn in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City.

Mexico City’s floating gardens were built by the Aztecs – now they are under threat. The chinampas are among the significant features that led Mexico City’s historic centre to become a ...

MEXICO CITY | Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family’s chinampa — one of the islands first built ...

Mexico City’s floating gardens, or chinampas, have fed people for hundreds of years; now they’re threatened. But amid urbanization, new generation aims to rekindle interest in the fading practice.

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Small ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on the Xochimilco Lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024.

The gardens crisscrossed by canals in the capital’s southern Xochimilco borough are built up from layers of dredged ... Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years.