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Verdolagas con chile verde y carne de puerco

Junte unas verdolagas y me aventé esto guiso con chile verde y unos trocitos de puerco

u/elcantu — 2 days ago
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Acualaistas

Juntando acualaistas para tostar. Se dan muchas en uno de los barbechos cercas de Jerez y alcanzamos a aprovechar un puño…

u/elcantu — 3 days ago
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Raised these javelinas since they were tiny—now they follow me like pups. (OC)

u/elcantu — 10 days ago
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Biznaga de chilitos

Una de las bendiciones de trabajar en el campo aquí en jerez Zacatecas es encontrarse una biznaga con chilitos! Cada año en uno de mis potreros me encuentro esta bendición del señor.. a quien más les gustan?

u/avinaut — 9 days ago
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Fixing barbed wire way out in La Tierra Prieta — Sierra de los Cardos, Jerez, Zacatecas

Took us about 3 hours on foot with tools just to get to this stretch of fence. It’s part of our 5,000 ha winter rangeland up in the sierra. The terrain’s rough, but the grazing’s solid and the views are hard to beat. Just another day of ranch work—long hikes, busted wire, and quiet country.

u/elcantu — 10 days ago
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We are getting to the end of the dry season in Zacatecas Mexico

Cows seem to be holding up they are in the last Potrero I have left it’s about 50 acres (25HA) this end is pretty cleaned up but we still have grass on the other half of the mountain I supplement twice a week with 150 kilos of oats/wheat with the grain on and 15 liters of molasses mixed with water that I mix into the feed mineralized salt is always available from here we will take them up to the range in the mountains where they will be till about march..

u/elcantu — 10 days ago
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Se empiezan las aguas en la sierra zacatecana

Hoy almorzamos allá en la sierra, frente a la casa vieja donde los abuelos esperaban las aguas viendo al cielo. Ya se ve el cerro verdeando poquito a poco. Pronto subiremos el ganado desde el rancho, como se a hecho temporada tras temporada por generaciones.

Muchos dejaron esta vida atrás … se fueron pa’l norte o se acomodaron en la ciudad. Allá batallan menos, pero no es lo mismo. Cada año regresan de vacaciones porque extrañan lo que dejaron: el monte, el olor a tierra mojada, el ruido de los becerros, su comunidad, el café con leña… la vida de verdad.

Sus hijos ya no conocerán eso. No entenderán por qué sus padres sueñan con volver, con pisar esta tierra otra vez, aunque sea por unos días. Porque esta vida, la del campo, se está quedando en el pasado… pero aquí seguimos unos cuantos, tercos, esperando el agua, siguiendo la lluvia, como nos enseñaron los viejos.

u/elcantu — 10 days ago
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Took our cattle up to the rainy season range Jerez Zacatecas

We finally got the cattle up to our mountain range for the rainy season. These were the stragglers we brought in last. The herd will be rotated through paddocks until March, when we bring them down closer to the village.

We left at 5am and arrived around 10:30am. On the way, we stopped at the shrine to El Santo Niño de Atocha, like my grandparents used to. We lit a veladora and asked God for protection for the herd, for us, and for the season ahead.

Not many of us still do this. As more people have migrated to the cities or the U.S., these traditions are fading. But out here, we’re still walking the old trails and keeping it alive.

u/elcantu — 10 days ago
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Driving cattle to our rainy season range in the mountains of Jerez, Zacatecas (OC)

We just moved our herd up into the mountains of Jerez for the rainy season. They’ll be rotated through about 5,000 hectares of shared range until around March. This has been part of my family’s cycle for generations dry season near the village, rainy season up in the sierra.

I’m the one of the last ones in my generation still doing this, keeping the tradition alive. There’s something special about seeing the cattle spread out over green pasture, same as my grandparents did.

u/elcantu — 10 days ago
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Feeding cactus to cattle

It finally started raining but the stock ponds up in the mountains haven’t filled up yet so we are supplementing with cactus pads we blow torched

u/elcantu — 10 days ago