Honoring life: In their own field in San Antonio de Areco, agronomists Cecilia Miserendino and José María Sills live a tr

As soon as she introduces herself, Cecilia Miserendino comments: “My grandfather bought this field 60 years ago for his 2 children in an auction, in ‘El Tokio’ of San Antonio de Areco. It is 15 kilometers from the city, on Route 31, which is still how it is named even though it is a dirt road and it is said that it was inaugurated twice with asphalt. Both my mother and my uncle, with their respective families, worked and lived on the field. For 40 years, both families coexisted, until one day they decided to divide the field. The house in which I live with my family today was the post at that time,” she says happily. Cecilia explains that the main activity was the rotation between agriculture and livestock. Then she went to study agronomy at the UBA. After graduating, she went backpacking throughout Latin America for two years, traveling and working in different crops. It was in 1998 when the family division of the field was finalized. Suddenly, she was already 37 years old, and ...