Day trips

We are organizing two day trips for the week. Fill out the survey for the day trips to let us know what you’re in for!

Thursday, July 23rd

We’ve got one day trip option for Thursday: a pottery adventure to a San Marcos Tlapazola.

Pottery community visit to San Marcos Tlapazola

Cost ~$75/person · 9:30am - 2:30pm

Oaxaca has been a center of pottery-making for over 2,000 years, and many of the surrounding villages still practice ancestral traditions – shaping clay by hand, firing in earthen kilns, and using natural pigments.

Cooperativa 1050°, a fair-trade cooperative uniting potters from seven distinct villages, is organizing a trip for us to visit San Marcos Tlapazola. This town is known for its red clay shaped entirely by hand, without a wheel. It will include a visit to one of the artisans in the cooperative and a hands-on workshop where we’ll get to make something!

Friday, July 24th

We’re organizing a day trip on Friday afternoon to the Madre Mezcal palenque, about 90min outside of Oaxaca City. We will organize transportation out there for everyone who wants to come.

Madre Mezcal tour

Cost ~$60-75/person · 1:30 - 5:30pm

Madre Mezcal is made by the García Morales family in the rolling hills of San Dionisio Ocotepec. José and his family have been tending agave and producing mezcal using traditional Zapotec methods for generations — harvesting Espadín and wild Cuishe by hand, roasting the piñas in an earthen pit, fermenting with wild yeast, and double-distilling through an ancient copper still.

We were lucky enough to meet Cesar, one of the people who runs the palenque, at a mezcal event in November. Liz toured it and said it’s a MUST for us. They're organizing a private visit for us. We'll see the agave fields, walk through every stage of the production process, and taste the mezcal where it was made. Photos courtesy of Liz Rossof