**Acknowledgements**

I acknowledge that part of this chapter was written in the unceded land of the Council of the Three Fires—the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Additionally, I wrote this chapter in El Gran Nayar, Náayeri, O'dam, Mexikan, and Wixárika unceded homelands. I thank my teachers, plant, human, and more-thanhuman relatives for accompanying me through life. Especially to Our Mother Corn for teaching me about kinship. Also, I am grateful to my *comadre* Felipa Rivera Lemus, and my godmother Rosalía Lemus de la Rosa for helping me collect oral traditions and teachings from women in Y + rata community. I am thankful for the support of Alison Geist, Amy Newday, Sara Stockwood, and Margaret Wiedenhoeft from Kalamazoo College. This work could not have been possible without the support of the Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning, Center for Environmental Stewardship, and Center for International Programs. Finally, much gratitude to Zoe Reyes and Nora Blanchard for their work during their internships in the Hoop House. All the comments and opinions are my responsibility.
