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.
FER-1814
Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Hospitalfield House Arbroath, UK
dispatched 19/06/13 delivered 20/06/13
blue corn shipment FER-1814
REMARKS: blue corn cooking at hospitalfield house open day
QTY: 1 units at bag each
FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org
TO: Hospitalfield House in Arbroath, UK
http://hospitalfield.org.uk/
SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: kate rich
REQUESTED: to ship between 19/06/13 and 21/06/13
STATUS: delivered Hospitalfield House 20/06/13
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www.feraltrade.org
COURIER: kate rich 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Feral Trade-Bristol Temple Meads station-London Paddington station-London Euston station-Arbroath station--Hospitalfield House

       
blue corn Feral Trade to Hospitalfield House 1. blue corn rinsed 2. board member simon dessain delivers home eggs 3. blue corn grinder hospitalfield open day 4. blue corn tortillas served hospitalfield house
Courier Report FER-1814 DISPATCHED: 19/06/13 DELIVERED: 20/06/13 kate rich 6PM bristol-london train schedule derailed by a person killed by a train in the swindon area shortly after 5:30. Train dispatched in emergency mode with 2 train managers who got busy distributing bottled water and declassifying 1st class so that passengers stuck in coach E of standard class where the air conditioning had failed could be reseated, on a rare 20 degrees+ humid british june afternoon. As only one line into london was operational & arrival delayed by 45 minutes, train manager sympathetically ordered feral trade a london taxi to make sure of timely transfer to the 9:21PM sleeper train up to scotland. Additionally a mobility cart was kind enough to meet feral trade at the platform on london arrival, saving trader from a perilious situation as bags were were anyway semi-unmanageable with 10kg olive oil, 6 kg of coffee, 2kg blue corn and a load of kitchen equipment. Courtesy cab made swift transit to london euston station where trader boarded the caledonian sleeper in good time for the overnight journey up to scotland. Picked up at arbroath station 630AM by lucy byatt & her new greyhound isaac.
freight and handling blue corn to Hospitalfield House 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