Member of Nutrinaturales cooperative, sorting ramón
While waiting for the minibus to Ixlu, I began talking with a man from another town around Lake Petén-Itza. When I asked him if he was familiar with ramón, the highly nutritious seed from the ramón tree, he told me that his grandparents had talked about ramón. They told him that there had been a bad drought in Guatemala which lasted nearly 20 years and that the corn had all
died. “So the people ate ramón,” he told me. "And because of the ramón, they did not die.”
died. “So the people ate ramón,” he told me. "And because of the ramón, they did not die.”
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