Help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (October) and American Indian Heritage Month (November) all at once by taking a new tour at the Gifford Arboretum. The “Trees of the Maya” tour features the new Maya Cocoa Garden exhibit. Meet at the stone bench (behind the Cox and Physics buildings) for the tour, which will take place Tuesday, October 13 at 5 p.m.

Of those people who independently invented agriculture, the Maya were the only ones who created an agro-ecosystem in the forest. See the trees that not only provided them with fruits, beverages, nuts, rubber, medicines, and of course cocoa, but which were also spiritually important. And what would a visit to the cocoa garden be without a little chocolate…