Community Gardening Projects & Xinachtli Seed Library
It was in January of 2025 that we officially launched our community seed Library, the Xinachtli Seed Library. Xinachtli, is a nahuatl word meaning seed but is also a word connected to an intergenerational movement of Indigenous Peoples to reaffirm and revive Indigenous pedagogies and ancestral knowledge . After many years doing of seed and plant distributions through our community garden work and through our work with youth it naturally led us to this point.
For us seedkeeping and seed caretaking have been a part of our cultural practices since time immemorial. Through this work we share with our youth the teachings passed down to us on how to honor and care for our seed relatives and plants.
To learn more about the Xinachtli Seed Library please check out our blog: www.xinachtliyouth.org
To contact us about seed distributions please email us: xochitl@tonatierra.org
Centzonmilpan Community Heritage Garden
The Centzonmilpan Community Gardening Project is a grassroots community response to the systematic community displacement and marginalization of the MeXicano Barrios in the central core of Phoenix, Arizona brought about by decades of gentrification and corporate “market driven” development characterized by environmental racism, community displacement and colonization.
Click on the link below to sign on a community letter to support Centzonmilpan.
Click on the link below to learn more about our work with the Centzonmilpan Community Heritage Garden
Milpa Nahuacalli
The goals for our Nahuacalli milpa are to supplement the nutritional needs of our communities, to partner and strengthen long time relationships between communities crossing color lines, and to reintroduce the ceremonial relationship with the plants that are integral to our culture. The milpa as the center of the traditional lives of our Indigenous Communities allows us to reincorporate traditional songs, dances, ceremonies with the Cintli (corn), with Tlaloc (rain), and the Teotlacualli (sacred foods).
Centzonmilpan - Barrios Unidos
Milpa Nahuacalli