Narciso Eusebio is a traditional Mayan healer and forest gardener who has dedicated his life to preserving his indigenous cultural knowledge of food cultivation, forest management and plant medicines.

Living on the edge of the Mayan bioreserve, on the border of Guatemala and Belize he has witnessed first hand increased temperatures, drought and unusual weather patterns caused by climate change due to the effects of deforestation for logging and agriculture.

The resulting loss of primary forest, biodiversity and essential medicinal plants and changes in the weather and seasons inspired him to attempt to reverse this trends by creating an abundant forest garden as a model not only for his community but for the world to learn from, in order to save biodiversity and grow food in a way that conserves water while benefiting wildlife and the environment.

In this video we tour Narciso's 50 year old Mayan forest garden, we forage for food and learn about many of the medicinal plants and their uses growing often voluntarily throughout the garden.

The Mayan forest garden is recognized as a core inspiration for Permaculture due to its way of mimicking a natural forest and working with nature rather than against it, where biodiversity is encouraged and sharing with the animals, insects, birds and reptiles is as important as the yield for humans.

Archeologists think that The Mayan's managed the forests of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama and Belize for over 8 000 to 10,000 years developing many of the world's most popular food staples like tomatoes, squashes, corn, chocolate and vanilla while living in harmony with nature.

As the climate crisis around the world worsens with unpredictable weather patterns and record temperatures and unprecedented droughts we have come in search of the solutions from the indigenous people still living the Mayan way today to guide us back to a more sustainable way of living that can restore the lost ecosystems and save planet earth!


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