The Hundred Names We Plant

by El Cronista

Antuca Huamán Quispe, 24 · Pampacoris, a fictional Quechua community in the Huancavelica highlands, Peru (3,650m elevation)

When a global fertilizer shortage drives prices beyond reach, 24-year-old agronomy student Antuca Huamán returns to her family's chacra in the Peruvian Andes to find her father drowning in debt and her village's harvest in peril. To save them, she must convince her proud father, a skeptical community, and herself that the answer lies not in cheaper urea but in the hundreds of native potato varieties her grandmother has quietly kept alive — and in a way of farming her people were taught to be ashamed of.