Campesino.04

Farmers of Vicente Guerrero, Mexico, measuring a slope

Working two and three days a week as volunteers, a team of six to eight
promotores ran school orchard and garden programs, provided technical
assistance in alternative agriculture to local ejidatarios, and helped households
establish biointensive gardens. The use of teams allowed for greater
diversity. Some promotores were good at experimenting, others better at
teaching. Each had a slightly different kind of technical expertise to share.

I have children who are professinals. I never finished the third grade. But I learned a lot of things along the way, and campesinos have been my teachers, my professors. I learned so much that now I can do the work of an agronomist, and I say this with pride because I have knowledge.
I learned it along the way, because it is there, in life’s road. Experience gave me everything.

--Felipe Tomas, Guatemala