Meet the 97-Year-Old Salt-Harvesting Matriarch

Photo caption: Quintina Ayvar de la Cruz harvesting salt. Photo credit: Leia Marasovich. Article by Elena Valeriote. Modern Farmer – June 14, 2024.

She taught her family the traditional ways of harvesting salt, and today, they still harvest completely by hand. An eco-tourism model helps this family keep going.

Quintina Ayvar de la Cruz is the living embodiment of the environment that has been her home for 97 years. She has a brightness that matches the green mangroves near her house in Juluchuca, Mexico and […]

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