Man preparing the soil to plant, photograph by Emmanuel Eslava, Mexico, 23 September 2015.
A man prepares the land of a chinampa for sowing. The chinampa raised farming technique can be identified by the posts that separate the arable land from the waters of the adjacent canal.
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