Colectivo Suumil Móokt’áan

Colectivo Suumil Móokt’áan is a Mayan family collective located in Sinanché, Yucatán, Mexico. The collective lives in a coastal area that has been devastated by henequen (agave) monocultures and has experienced a massive abandonment of the countryside by people moving elsewhere.

Founded in 2020, its work seeks to create conditions that allow young people to stay in the community and build meaningful livelihoods aligned with Mayan culture. The organisation began the construction of its Mayan solar project in the midst of the Covid pandemic, a project which offers a space for intergenerational learning and reclaiming ways of living as Mayan people.

Since then, Colectivo Suumil Móokt’áan have created different spaces and initiatives that offer learning opportunities, including:

  • A seed house, which stores 100 varieties of native seeds, a nursery and a vegetable garden.
  • Two ecological dry toilets and a 20,000 litre rainwater harvesting system made of ferrocement that feeds the vegetables and plants.
  • A collective kitchen where knowledge and flavours are exchanged.
  • A multi-purpose palapa where different meetings, gatherings and workshops are held.
  • One hectare of land is being used to promote a syntropic agroforestry system, with around 200 different plants.

These spaces highlight how the ways participants’ grandmothers and grandfathers used to live are still valid, enabling intergenerational learning of practical and rooted knowledge of daily life around the care of the territory, health and food sovereignty.

  • Community, Ecosystems, Food
  • 2025
  • Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Award
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