Miguel Hidalgo Elementary

Miguel Hidalgo Elementary

THE SCHOOL VISIT

Miguel Hidalgo, Elementary

San Joaquín del Monte Community State of México

Back buffer forest área to El Rosario Sanctuary

Ambassadors: 826, 839-865

Coordinates: 19.6375614 -100.1540534

 

Our SOIL at the high altitudes where Monarchs overwinter at over 10,000 feet elevation, is not as productive as the soil where Sanctuary Cerro Pelón is, at a much lower elevation. 

 “At our high altitude and rather cold climate most of the year we are prominent farmers on the most delicious potatoes you can ever taste, the Alfa Potatoes. We also cultivate our WHITE and BLUE-RED corn, which are part of our creole, ancestral corn seeds, edible and main part of our family diet.”.

“Another main living for our families consists of raising cattle, sheep (seldom goats), hens, turkeys and rabbits, partly for family consumption, partly for local and regional commerce.” students stated proudly.

 Similar to our past school visit, where students could recognize most of our wild plants, today they directly recognized our most common mammals living around our beloved Monarchs in our Oyamel forests:

 “Armadillos, skunks, racoons, deer, badgers, wild cats, mice, bats!” The brochures were donated by Monarch Butterfly Fund through the Monarchs Across Georgia México Book Project. 

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Nuestro SUELO, a más de 3,400 metros de altura, no es tan productivo como, por ejemplo, el suelo del Santuario Cerro Pelón que se encuentra mucho más abajo.

“A la altura en que vivimos y con nuestro clima más bien frío la mayor parte del año, somos productores importantes de las papas más deliciosas que podríamos probar, la Papa ALFA. también del maíz BLANCO y el maíz AZUL y ROJO que forman parte de nuestro ancestral maíz criollo, que el comestible y es alimento principal en nuestra dieta familiar”.

"Otra forma principal de vida consiste en la crianza de ganado, de borregos (rara vez críamos cabras), gallinas, guajolotes y conejos, parte para nuestro consumo familiar, otra parte para nuestro comercio local y regional”, comentaron los estudiantes con orgullo.  

Similar a nuestra visita anterior, donde los estudiantes pudieron reconocer la mayor parte de nuestras plantas silvestres, hoy ellos reconocieron a nuestros mamíferos más comunes que viven alrededor de nuestras hermosas Monarcas en nuestros bosques de Oyamel.:

Armadillos, zorrillos, mapaches, venados, tejones, tlacuaches, gatos monteses, ratones y murciélagos! MURCIÉLAGOS!, No sabíamos que los murciélagos eran mamíferos! los únicos mamíferos que vuelan! Woooow!. Gritaban sorprendidos los alumnos.  

 Los folletos fueron donados por Monarch Butterfly Fund a través de the Monarchs Across Georgia México Book Project. 

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