Household determinants of home garden presence in an indigenous Mexican community

The purpose of this paper is to determine what household factors are associated with the presence of home gardens in the indigenous Purhépecha community of San Francisco Pichátaro, Michoacán.  Two models of logistic regression were utilized to determine what economic activities are most associated with home garden presence, and what household characteristics are associated with home garden presence. In addition, a partial correlation analysis was used to determine which household members are most correlated with home garden maintenance. I found that resin extraction and embroidery are the two economic activities most associated with home garden presence.  The presence of a parental home garden is also associated with current home garden presence.  In addition, households who had members that migrated were associated with home garden presence.  Both men and women heads of household were correlated with home garden maintenance.