To celebrate our Global Environment Day the students of "Gardening At Lakeside" on-line class, the young women of San Juan Cosala, their Co-Ordinator Monica Masini Aguilera and I took a trip to Jocotepec for their first Medicinal Plant 4 Plastic Bottle Exchange Program.
We had been collecting plastic bottles for a few weeks now, so with bags of bottles in hand
we headed to the Municipal Viero of Jocotepec.
Municipal Vivero of Jocotepec
Alondra stands in front of the vivero's compost pile
We found numerous medicinal plants and ornaments growing in an area
alongside the soccer field. The complex also houses the Cruz Verde clinic, and Proteccion Civil/Bomberos.
Monica counting and placing her contributions in the bin
The idea was for every 10 plastic bottles we contributed we were entitled to take 1 medicinal plant.
We brought several large bags of bottles, so we had many opportunities to choose plants.
The Municipal Vivero also houses a couple of worm farms. We visited with the worms, who were happily busy eating banana skins.
We love Red Wrigglers!
The vivero also had permanent plantings in homemade wooden planter boxes.
Center is Gaby Solano, Co-Ordinator of the Municipal Vivero
Gaby welcomed us warmly and gave us a tour of the project and area.
Since we recently started another community garden/vivero in San Cristobal across the lake, these plants will come in handy and will assist us with our initial garden.
With the family van nicely packed, we headed out satisfied that we had helped our recycling efforts and successfully celebrated Global Environment Day in Mexico.
