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-1993
Feral Trade Bristol, UK to Dampfzentrale Bern, Switzerland
dispatched 10/09/14 delivered 10/09/14
blue corn shipment FER-1993
REMARKS: for feral trade café blue corn pancake
QTY: 1 units at bag each
FROM: Feral Trade in Bristol, UK
http://feraltrade.org
TO: Dampfzentrale in Bern, Switzerland
www.dampfzentrale.ch
SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: kate rich
REQUESTED: to ship between 04/09/14 and 12/09/14
STATUS: delivered Dampfzentrale 10/09/14
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COURIER: minerva cuevas  Alfonso Salvador Rocha Robles  Hiuwai Chan  kate rich 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Amigos de Ozolco-Cholula bus station-Mexico TAPO bus station-Mejor Vida Corporation-Mexico City Benito Juarez airport-Amsterdam Schiphol Airport-Bristol airport-Bristol bus station-Feral Trade-Bristol bus station-Bristol airport-Geneva airport-Geneva station-Bern station--Dampfzentrale
blue corn Feral Trade to Dampfzentrale
Shipping Facts
FER-1733 import purchase & freight
5 x blue corn baggrossper bag
Courier Report FER-1993 DISPATCHED: 10/09/14 DELIVERED: 10/09/14 kate rich dragged 22KG suitcase out of flat early AM. ran into a neighbour in the carpark & paused to explain why travelling for work equals fun. bus to airport where everything was unusally benign, suitcase was accepted by easyjet as not overweight & the x-ray scanner agents good humouredly identified hand baggage packed manual coffee grinder and raw eggs as such. after a banal flight landed in geneva from where the super punctual train travelled to bern. taxi to dampfzentrale.
onward transit of FER-1733 from Amigos de Ozolco arrived Feral Trade 2013-03-22
minerva cuevas Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 16:13:29 +0000 Subject: Re: transports I got the puebla, the ones from Oax hopefully get them tomorrow. I haven't pack but I think it will be Ok to take everything to Hague, I am trusting I have a suitcase with 4 wheels! :) Stay warm! x M
Alfonso Salvador Rocha Robles Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:13:12 -0600 Subject: blue corn Dear Kate: I talked to Jaime on Friday during our Slow Food meeting. He is not able to go to Mexico City so he asked if I could take it. My girlfriend was not able to come to Puebla but I would go next Friday (March 1st) to give your order to Minerva. So let me give you the total of the cost, for the product and transport, and I would appreciate it if you could make the deposit during the week so I can use that money for my bus ticket to Mexico City. *Product Cost* 4 kg- Blue Corn Seed: $130; 1 kg- Blue Cornmeal no sugar: $40. *Transport Cost* Puebla –Mexico: $300. *Minerva: *May I have your phone number so I can call you on Friday when I arrive to Mexico City. I will be near metro Coyoacan if it is possible to meet there during the evening or night. Regards, Alfonso.
Hiuwai Chan Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:15:47 +0100 hey kate, I am on the road/hitch hiking to protugal, so i have limited internet access before this sunday. I should be able to do the bristol/london route to mcr! but i need to double check with work first, i can confirm with you next week. I have also asked around to see anyone traveling to those routes on those days. waiwai
blue corn transit: Amigos de Ozolco to Feral Trade
       
freight and handling blue corn to Dampfzentrale 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