Agroecology Community Garden & School Lunch Program

Location: 
Canduya, Ecuador
Alum Project Leader: 
Gustavo Torres
Alexandra Córdova
Grant Amount: 
$1270(USD)
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MESA alumni Gustavo Torres and Alexandra Córdova have teamed up to address the issue of nutrition in the Canduya region, Bolívar province of Ecuador. Their project benefits the students of the Manuel Páliz School in Canduya and their families. Alexandra and Gustavo teach vegetable gardening using sustainable farming techniques. A key goal of their curriculum is to communicate the importance of eating vegetables. Crop propagation workshops in the garden are organized for children and their parents, and the food produced is used at the Manuel Paliz Elementary School to help supply the school lunch program.

Riobamba Reunion

In June, program manager Leah Atwood attended MESA’s second Ecuadorian Alumni Reunion. Over 25 Steward alumni from eight different provinces were there, traveling up to 12 hours to reach the highlands of Riobamba.

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Kevin Cody, a graduate student at UCSC has been awarded a grant to study MESA! To “assess the potential to ‘scale-up’ innovations in sustainable agriculture (SA) through a case study of the organization, ..."