Farms: Urban Agriculture in Cuba
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This short documentary, produced by Anna Farb and Rachel Gilbert, focuses on urban agriculture in Cuba. Footage was taken during a 9-day trip to Havana through Dickinson College's Community Studies Center Cuba Mosaic course. For more information about the trip, visit the class blog at blogs.dickinson.edu/cubamosaic. Music by Diego Gutierrez and Rey Guerra Photography: Carl Socolow, Rachel Gilbert, Anna Farb, ecocycleecobuzz.blogspot.com, northrup.org, nipahutgardens.com, cubadebate.cu, saragriffithsdesign.wordpress.com, tribmedia.sltrib.com
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I reclaimed a trash-filled vacant lot in Pittsburgh Pa. 2 years ago...I grow blackberries blueberries,tomatoes cucumbers and beans...herbs lettuce various peppers pumpkins. My neighbors keep bees and have milk goats,chickens and a garden. I produced enough vegetables for my family and several neighbors. I attract birds by providing bird houses as well as bat houses and humming bird feeders to deter insects...really happy to see this vid....check out the cuba sea doctor reef project joint research project I am really happy with the normalizing of relations with cuba...go green
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I was quite impressed with the efforts of the Cuban people to GROW the Urban markets by using undesirable spaces such as roof tops and vacant land to feed the country. Keep it GROWING Cuba!
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Cuba fascinates me, love the idea of their organic food and its benefits. Oil will run out and so will the pesticides. We need more sustainable models and people need to be more connected with their food. I was recently in the USA again and I'm always shocked by the abundance of processed food and lack of quality food, especially outside of California.
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I live in the eastbay of the greater San Francisco Bay Area. This is the hub of Urban Gardening and the locavore movement. Your epilouge was too negative. This movement is growing by leaps. California is blessed by the Sacramento, Salinas, & San Joaquin Valliies. Together they refferred to as thre cornucopia to the world. Yet the locavore movement is getting stronger. My guess is that Dickinson College is somewhere near Amherst MA. There was a reason Ben Franklin fled Massachuse