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BOOK EXAMINES ANCIENT AGRICULTURE
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Certain agricultural ways, methods, practices and knowledge still 
practiced in Northern New Mexico, though based on ancient knowledge, are 
still being implemented by Hispanic farmers and ranchers in the area.

Juan Estevan Arellano has recently compiled in English, "Ancient 
Agriculture, Roots and Application of Sustainable Farming," (2006, 
Ancient City Press, Santa Fe), a book based on a version printed in 1539 
by Gabriel Alonso de Herrera in Spain. Arellano is an Embudo 
agricultural activist, farmer and acequia mayordomo, as well as an 
award-winning poet and novelist.

The author took several years to faithfully and accurately translate and 
compile an English version of Herrera's original "Obra de …