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Urban Food Growing in Havana, Cuba

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A clip from the BBC’s “Around the World in 80 Gardens” (2008) showing some of the urban food gardening in Havana, Cuba.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_and_radio/aroundtheworld_index2.shtml#programme_one

Duration : 0:8:40


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Comments

  1. Viva Cuba! What a …
    Viva Cuba! What a place! I’m with you Monty, we need some of that over here!!

  3. I agree with …
    I agree with everything except that Cubans are happy. Education, healthcare, that doesnt matter if you don’t have liberty. I grew up there man, its so suffocating not being able to speak your mind and the fear you feel when you do. Although it might sound ironic with the whole communist ideal, you really have to fend for yourself in Cuba. Either you grow your own food or make sure you have money to buy it in “la placita” or “los mercados campesinos”. I noticed you didn’t mention beef though lol

  4. So, why do you live …
    So, why do you live here? Because I suppose you live here in this hole, go to Cuba to enjoy the paradise of free education and health. All you have to do is to buy a ticket and stay there. After two days (of course don’t use your dollars, live like a cuban), you’ll realize that you are in hell.

  5. For more …
    For more information about how Cubans survived the Special Period, try the DVD “The Power of Community” or the book “Eating Fossil Fuels”.

  6. Have you actually …
    Have you actually gone to Cuba? I did! (Two months ago, to be exact.) The “fact” is that they feed the entire island (population 11m) without almost nothing imported. I had multiple Cubans serve me huge, delicious platters of fruit and proudly tell me that all of it was grown within a mile, organically no less. Cubans might be poor, but the “fact” is that the remaining 4/5 are generally happy and not itching to embrace the wasteful, consumptive lifestyle exemplified by their neighbors to north.

  7. It’s disgusting how …
    It’s disgusting how naively he idealises this farming. The fact is 1/5 of Cubans have escaped their country because of its dire poverty. This isn’t some “green revolution”; it’s a desperate attempt to survive in an economy that simply doesn’t provide.

  8. Cuba is paradise, …
    Cuba is paradise, sure a paint job would go down well, but its not important! check out my profile videos..When people are born, only 2 things are important, health and education, Cuba has both..USA is the only hole on the planet.

  9. honestly, deep …
    honestly, deep inside me too. in cuba there’s more family/friends time because people are not busy working their off or driving everywhere like in the US. btw i’m cuban. the only bad things is that the gov in cuba lets u grow the food but doesnt let you sell it unless you pay huge amounts of taxes/fines

  11. Sustainable …
    Sustainable agriculture meant Permaculture style Government could not act quickly enough so gave the power back to the communities as people were starving. They made changes in land tenure, promoted agricultural education and training, and technological changes. Individuals and communities used Permaculture principles as the new model of food production using ecological pest management, intercropping, animal traction, organic soil management

  12. The collapse of …
    The collapse of trade relations with the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries, and the tightening of the US blockade in early 1990s ceated a major economic crisis in Cuba known as the Special Period. Cuba lost half their oil overnight, lost 80% inport and export markets, food was scarce; people started to starve. They had a food crisis; they were unable to import food, farm chemicals nor use machinery to grow food by conventional means. Cuba HAD to become self sufficient,sustainable

  13. What crap. There …
    What crap. There are backyard gardens all over the world and this creep goes to a place where the buildings are falling on people to extol growing your own food. A family of farmers had to take an empty space because their farm was taken away. What an idiot this Brit. He should go to back to England.

  14. I can’t wait until …
    I can’t wait until the whole planet runs out of oil, how much fun will it be to live like this?

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