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Ajijic, Jalisco, MX, July 4, 2010. In mid-June, more than twenty members and friends of Green Transition in Action (GTiA) and the Lake Chapala Green Group (LCGG)—Lakeside community groups focused on sustainable living—convoyed north on the Chapala-Guadalajara highway to the high country around Ixtlahuacán. There they visited what one might call the "Medicine Farm" of José Guadalupe Vásquez Maderos.
Here, for more than a year, José has been growing medicinal herbs and other healthful plants. The wide-open view and the abundance of production belie the fact that the farm comprises only two hectares. It is, however, a model of efficient, organic, growing practice, and features at least 30 plant species that are regularly harvested.
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