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The Maya Gardens was established at UBC Farm in 2000 by the Maya Indian Support Group, composed of Mayan refugees who came to Canada from Guatemala in the 1980s during a campaign of state-sponsored genocide in Guatemala. The Maya Gardens serves as a site on which the Maya community cultivates the three sisters of corn, beans and squash, as well as other crops, as their ancestors have done for millennia, in order to maintain their culture and identity. Members of the public can take Maya cooking classes at the farm, and members of the Maya Gardens sell some of their produce at the UBC Farm Saturday Farmers’ Market. On May 6th, the Maya Gardens collective will host Neydi Juracán of the Campesino Committee of the Highlands and members of the public, who will be taken on a guided tour of the Gardens and have the opportunity to participate in a learning-exchange and knowledge-sharing.
For more about the Maya Gardens, visit:
https://mayagardenubc.com/
https://aboriginal.landfood.ubc.ca/mayan-in-exile-garden/
https://you.ubc.ca/ubc_stories/campus-story/
About Neydi Yassmine Juracán Morales:
Neydi is a Kakchiquel Maya woman and the National Coordinator of Guatemala's Campesino Committee of the Highlands (CCDA), representing over 50,000 campesino (small farming) families. Neydi is the CCDA’s coffee program coordinator and the CCDA’s representative on the International Land Coalition, a global alliance of farmers and indigenous organizations. youth activist who plays a central role in Guatemala's Indigenous-led struggle for land defence, recuperation, and food sovereignty. Through her ongoing efforts to amplify the work, knowledge, and vision of the CCDA and of Indigenous-led social movements, more broadly, Neydi has demonstrated the capacity and commitment to building spaces and opportunities for learning, teaching, and exchange, as well as solidarity-based relationships between allied popular struggles across the globe.
Visit https://www.codev.org/news/neidy-huracan-tour-bc and check the details of NEYDI’S B.C TOUR 2024.
Tour funded by the BC Council for International Cooperation's George Sisters Fellowship for a Global South Grassroots Activist.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Maya Garden at UBC Farm - 3461 Ross Dr., Vancouver, Canada