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| feral trade blue corn |
| Blue corn grown in Ozolco, the highest village before Mexico's most articulate volcano Popocatepetl. Each farmer preserves his own corn seeds down the generations giving rise to hundreds of native varieties within the same village. Farmer and chef Jaime Boyso cultivates blue and white corn on his semi-vertical 4 acre plot, interspersed with fruit trees, beans, agave and nopale cactus for home consumption. The dried corn is processed into toasted flour (pinole) by Amigos de Ozolco in their family-home factory, for export to Philadelphia where 40% of Ozolco currently lives, a project effectively reversing NAFTA's efforts to flood the Mexican market with cheap American corn.
ferally traded since: 27/11/12.
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| | FER-1720 | | Amigos de Ozolco Ozolco, Mexico to Feral Trade Bristol, UK | | dispatched 27/11/12 delivered 30/11/12 |
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| blue corn shipment FER-1720
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| REMARKS: | 1kg pinole (toasted blue corn flour) 1 bag of blue corn tostadas the shipping quantities limited due to weight &/or fragility, however future courier routes between Ozolco and Bristol are actively sought. |
| QTY: | 1 units at bag each |
| FROM: |
Amigos de Ozolco in Ozolco, Mexico
https://es-es.facebook.com/amigosdeozolco |
| TO: |
Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org |
| SENDER: | Jaime Boyso |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 27/11/12 and 30/11/12 |
| STATUS: | delivered Feral Trade 30/11/12 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
Jaime Boyso
minerva cuevas
Dorota Prymek
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Amigos de Ozolco-Cholula bus station-Mexico TAPO bus station-Mejor Vida Corporation-Mexico City Benito Juarez airport-Newark Liberty airport-London Heathrow Airport-Bristol bus station--Feral Trade |
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| blue corn Amigos de Ozolco to Feral Trade
1. ozolco popocatepetl volcano corn fields 2. ozolco corn breakfast 3. ozolco corn drying rooftop 4. ozolco farmer and chef jaime boyso 5. jaime boyso milpa corn agave tejocote fruit 6. potehtli pinole factory 7. potehtli 1KG blue corn weighed out 8. blue corn flour arrives ducrow court bristol |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1720 import purchase & freight
| | 1 x blue corn bag | gross | per bag |
| car to cholula courtesy save the children | £0 |
£0.00 |
| bus cholula-mexico city 87 pesos | £4.1 |
£4.10 |
| metro mexico city courtesy disabled | £0 |
£0.00 |
| taxi mexico city 35 pesos | £2.75 |
£2.75 |
| metrobus to airport 30 pesos | £1.5 |
£1.50 |
| flight mexico-london £830 courtesy arts council england | £0 |
£0.00 |
| bus london heathrow airport to bristol courtesy £27 arts council england | £0 |
£0.00 |
| total | £8.35 | £8.35 |
| | Courier Report FER-1720 DISPATCHED: 27/11/12 DELIVERED: 30/11/12 kate rich Blue corn pinole picked up direct from the factory in Ozolco, located in the ground floor of one of the producers' family's home. The pinole was packed in a spare sugar bag for transport. Got a ride back down the mountain foothill to Cholula with Jaime and Dorota in Dorota's Save the Children colleague's car. Stopped in Cholula outside Starbucks for a power meeting with Alfonso, also from the Pinole project and now Slow Food Councillor for all of Mexico and Central America. At sunset Dorota and Jaime assisted bags & courier to the Cholula bus station, a tiny roadside office, for the 1/2 empty and blessedly TV-less 2 hour bus ride to Mexico City. Arrived at TAPO bus station in to meet Minerva who was helping drag the now insane bags to her studio. However due to lockdown of the city centre for the pending presidential inauguration, all metrobus and even official taxis from the bus station were unprecedently cancelled, we took metro & taxi instead to Minerva's studio in Col. Centro. 29/11 after 1 day repacking, trader and bags were transported safely to Bristol via Mexico Airport and Newark New Jersey, where reloaded bags were not investigated by US Customs despite their unstable appearance. 30/11 all freight and trader arrived intact by United flight to Heathrow Airport, from where they were bussed to Bristol by National Express bus. |
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| freight and handling blue corn to Feral Trade sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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