South America: Stories From Deep America - Video Documentary

South America: Stories From Deep America - Video Documentary   In this video, peasant farmers of Puno and Cuzco in Peru and Cochabamba in Bolivia share aspects of their agricultural knowledge, including a summoning ritual for fallow land, reading signs in nature for knowing when to turn over the soil, observing sprouts on stored potatoes to determine planting times, traditional methods of insuring a good potato crop, tasks related to caring for a chacra (cultivated field), ways of storing...

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