Maya Living Legacy presents Anabel Ford

The Maya forest is among the most diverse in the world, yet the traditional Maya milpa has been denigrated as primitive, wasteful, and inadequate to give rise to the Maya civilization accused of deforesting their landscape for agriculture and architecture. Yet the forest today holds tremendous economic value. This presentation will ask you to imagine an alternative, one that can account for the rise of the Maya and their persistence today based on the dynamic milpa-forest garden cycle.