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Las Cañadas

Las Cañadas is a private farming collective devoted to permaculture and other sustainable, climate-friendly agricultural practices and lifestyles. Their intensive silvopasturing methods result high in rates of carbon sequestration as they raise meat and dairy livestock. They maintain a website to publicize their approach and they provide trainings on site.

From their website: "Una mejor forma de vivir y producir es posible, te ofrecemos inspiraci6n, ideas y herramientas para lograrlo."

From an interview describing their work: "They’ve planted 50,000 native trees to reforest overgrazed parts of the land. They practice ... intensive silvopasture. Intensive silvopasture means that fodder trees are planted every square meter to be browsed repeatedly by livestock. When timber and other trees are added, intensive silvopasture sequestration rates are extremely high. They have a dairy where they make their own cheese and yogurt. They grind corn and make their own tortillas. They have composting toilets. They don’t have the kind of Board of Health and building codes that we have in the U.S., so they’re able to really go there with carbon farming in a way that’s exciting to see. The Mexican government approached Las Cañadas to run carbon farming trainings for farmers across the country."