“The land is sacred,” Mr. Ron Laguaña tells us. The land invokes family memories, carries cultural knowledge, and it has the power to sustain life from generation to generation.
Mr. Laguaña’s earliest recollections is on his grandparents’ farm where he, with his siblings and cousins, learned their first lessons of Chamoru culture and language. His grandparents had been farmers during the pre-World War II days, and even farmed during the Japanese occupation. In the postwar years, they taught their children and grandchildren how to grow their own food.