Meet the Indigenous Engineer Upcycling Tequila Waste into Sustainable Housing

Photo caption: Martha Jimenez Cardoso helped pioneer a method to create building bricks out of tequila waste. Photo courtesy of Astral Tequila. Article by Gia Mora. Modern Farmer – April 5, 2023.

Oaxacan engineer Martha Jimenez Cardoso comes from a farming family. “For us, corn is like gold,” she says. Her mother still plants this ancient crop with a stick and a few kernels, the way the people in her small Indigenous village of Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec Mixe have done for 12,000 years. Cardoso’s agricultural roots taught her to value and respect nature. […]

Click here to view original web page at modernfarmer.com