A Milpa Lifeway: Re-growing An Ecstatic Bioregional Culture of Self-Reliant LivingIn the Midst of Climate Chaos

Excerpt from the handout:

After growing milpa in mounds and contoured rows for years and trying to figure out how to get the best of both worlds, finally one day in an inspired moment while installing sheets of foundation wax into honey supers for my beehives, I hit on the idea of the honeycomb milpa. In the honeycomb milpa, the soil is literally shaped into a honeycomb geometry. The cells of the honeycomb are about 5.5’ from one “face” of the cell to the opposite face. The edges of each cell are raised slightly by soil that is scooped out of the center of each cell, thereby creating a shallow depression which catches water.