Heading Inland - Agriculture

Deb and I spent a month on the beach tuning up our spanish before heading inland to the Michoacan highlands and our first true experience with colonial Mexico. Along our way we passed huge regions of agricultural land - miles of blue agave around the town of Tequila east of Guadalajara. South of Lake Chapala along highway 15 it was miles of strawberries and raspberries in gigantic but simple greenhouses and as we turned away from the lake it was a checkerboard of mixed crops. In the highlands we would often see evidence of small scale farming primarily corn with perhaps some evidence of a vegetable garden in predominately pine forest. Much cooler at altitude and the cropland is now dormant for a few months. The high today is forecast to be 19C with a low of 3C - brrrrrr.