Today, the canals in the borough of Xochimilco are part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. They weave through chinampas , the floating gardens built by layering reeds and tree branches and covering ...

Small ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on the Xochimilco Lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024. Credit: AP/Felix Marquez ...

Small ancestral floating gardens are visible next to new soccer fields on the Xochimilco Lake in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City. (Felix Marquez / The Associated Press) Related Articles ...

Mexico City’s floating gardens, or chinampas, have fed people for hundreds of years; now they’re threatened. But amid urbanization, new generation aims to rekindle interest in the fading practice.

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Xochimilco has more than 2,500 acres of protected land owned by generations of local chinamperos, as those who farm the islands are known. PHOTOS: Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people ...

Floating gardens with Mexican marigold flowers known as cempasuchil grow in the Xochimilco borough of Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez) ASSOCIATED PRESS ...

Food from these islands has fed people for hundreds of years, but the chinampas are under threat from urbanization.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family’s chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Cassandra Garduño squinted in the sunlight, her pink boots smudged by dirt as she gazed out over her family’s chinampa — one of the islands first built up by the Aztecs ...

Mexico City’s floating gardens have fed people for hundreds of years. Now they’re threatened ...