Environmental for Food Justice

Sisnaajini. Mount Blanca massif as viewed from San Francsico, CO Photo by Devon Peña Moderator’s Note: Reyes García introduced me to the bioregional cultures and acequia-based livelihoods of Colorado’s San Luis Valley in 1984. He is a native of the Valley and the sole heir of a multigenerational acequia farm in the land grant community in Conjeos County across the Rio Grande from Costilla County. It has been an interesting thirty years and both of us are still living and working in this high altitude cold desert environment surrounded by some of Colorado’s highest mountains – the San Juan volcanic uprisings to the west and the fault-block wall of the Sangre de Cristo uplift to the east – and oldest families and communities. Dr. García is a philosopher and retired college professor. In 1998 he published a chapter in a book I edited, Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin   (University of Arizona Press). In today’s post, he revisits the concept of (home)land ethics, an i...