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| feral trade blue corn |
| from Amigos de Ozolco Ozolco, Mexico | | 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-1724 | | Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Feral Trade Bristol, UK | | dispatched 25/12/12 delivered 26/12/12 |
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| blue corn shipment FER-1724
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| REMARKS: | not technically a shipment but a means of generating a waybill to record ozolco blue corn nixtimalisation experiment 1 |
| QTY: | 1 units at bag each |
| FROM: |
Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org |
| TO: |
Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org |
| SENDER: | kate rich |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 25/12/12 and 26/12/12 |
| STATUS: | delivered Feral Trade 26/12/12 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
Jaime Boyso
minerva cuevas
Dorota Prymek
kate rich
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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--Feral Trade |
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| blue corn Feral Trade to Feral Trade
1. 1 nixtamalised corn rinse 2. 2 food processer trial 3. 3 meat-grinder trial 4. 4 meat grinder results 5. 5 blue masa 6. 6 blue tortilla 7. 7 tortilla cooked 8. 8 tortilla served |
| 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-1724 DISPATCHED: 25/12/12 DELIVERED: 26/12/12 kate rich Mixed 1 tbsp cal (calcium hydroxide / slaked lime) into 3 cups water heading for the boil. The lime did not exactly dissolve but hung, this did not seem to affect the final outcome. Added 1 cup blue corn & brought to boil slowly over 20 or so minutes. Left the pan on the stove overnight.
The next day rubbed & rinsed the corn in a metal colander for 3-4 minutes, the 5-6 mins instructed felt overkill for such a small corn amount. Experiment 1 pulsing corn in small food grinder yielded crushed jagged corn grains, definitely the wrong equipment. Experiment 2 the ebay-bought czech meat grinder turned out super effective. Put the corn through 2 passes, first with 5mm disk then 3mm. Added salt and a few drops of water for the masa (caution it is easy to overdo the water and get a too loose dough) and prepared tortillas with tortilla press and cast iron pan the usual method. |
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| onward transit of FER-1720 from Amigos de Ozolco arrived Feral Trade 2012-11-30 |
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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blue corn transit: Amigos de Ozolco to Feral Trade
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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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