Chinampas are part of an agricultural system developed during the Aztec Empire in shallow lakes or marshes in the southern valley of what is today Mexico City. The system consists of elevated ...

A chinampa is an ancient Aztec lake-top gardening technique that you can adapt to your own landscape, especially in wet or waterlogged areas. I’ll show you where we’re planning to install ours ...

In Mexico City, the ancient system of canals and floating islands, known as Chinampas, is increasingly considered an asset vital to the city’s future. MEXICO CITY — Citywide water outages.

Chinampas are also threatened by an ongoing urbanization process, where housing areas expand at the expense of space for producing local food." He also argues for political change to "restore the ...

Over his 11 years there, Mr. Sumano has seen countless chinampas repurposed as businesses catering to the party boat crowd; one now boasts a Texas-style barbecue with picnic tables.

It’s not every day you hear about a business plan that looks to build a hydroponic farm as phase II after creating a design and marketing firm. But that’s the game plan for Seth Stephens, M ...

A 2013 paper by North Carolina State University professor Matthew Teti found that in the 16th century, chinampa farms could produce 13 times as much crop as dry-land farming in the same area — a ...