It's all to do with chinampas. These raised fields built on artificial islands sound almost too good to be true. Often fed by a network of canals and dykes, they apparently afford "extremely high" ...

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, Mason Green ...

In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture. It was early on a Sunday morning, and I was in the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco, 28km south ...

Our Here, Now column looks at trends taking hold in cities around the world, and gives you the low-down on how to experience them the next time you're in town. “They were trying to create new land, ...

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, narrow ...

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison travels to the chinampas of Mexico City, known as the Floating Gardens of Xochimilco. The video features Lucio Usobiaga, who leads the Arca Tierra project ...

MEXICO CITY — 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 with fertile mud ...

Mexico City’s farmers may help save their floating islands by connecting produce to trendy restaurants. Saving Mexico City’s Floating Islands MEXICO CITY — Citywide water outages. An air quality ...