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Santa Barbara Independent
UCSB Archaeologist Anabel Ford Brings the El Pilar Forest Gardeners to Town
In anticipation of Ford’s annual “Fiesta El Pilar” - which happens this year at the Museum of Natural History and is hosting some of the Maya gardeners themselves – Matt Kettmann interviewed two of El Pilar’s indigenous forest-tenders via email.