From a peasant woman

“Thank you, thank you chacrita (dear farm), thank God for giving us the food! Hopefully next year you will produce the same, chacrita”.

This is a phrase that we can find in the testimonies of brother Marcos Florián.

This past 4th June we had the presentation of a new son of the Network, the book "El Campesino y la tierra", a testimony of brother Marcos Florián, with all his affection for the dear land.

I am very happy to have been able to collaborate with the drawings. When I read the book, many memories came to my mind of what we lived as peasants, on the farm and in the daily bustle of work. This work is sometimes very hard, but raising, respecting and valuing our dear plants and animals is a daily learning for me; recognizing practices that sometimes we are already losing, that we are forgetting.

This is a book to avoid abandoning the knowledge of our grandparents; it is a daily learning to share in the farm with the family and with the community members. It is something that young people must now bear in mind: this wisdom. And to become a little aware not only of the work of the peasant, but how great it is to have such an incredibly rich source of knowledge: our land.

Zelma Gálvez Vásquez, from El ahijadero.