Healing the body and the land on Lake Chapala, Mexico

Women of town plagued with water pollution, kidney disease and poor healthcare options turn to growing their own medicine

Faced with a public health crisis due to kidney disease in the region, a group of women organized in Agua Caliente – on the shores of Mexico’s largest lake, Chapala, in the municipality of Poncitlán, Jalisco – to launch a community garden of medicinal plants. Although there are factors beyond their control, these women are counting on their collective organization around a budding agroecology project, to help them care for their health.

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