Re: Cuba

**Pat Meadows p*@meadows.pair.com**

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:07:15 -0500, you wrote:

>I was in Cuba in the late 90's and people were coming from all over  
>the world to learn about their  sustainable organic farming  
>practices. It was remarkable to see such passion for small scale  
>diversified farming, community gardens, vermiculture and beneficial  
>insect production flourishing in a place that is not often thought of  
>a world leader in anything but music and dancing. I haven't heard  
>much lately about how things have progressed there, but I do hear  
>that the US government is making it even more difficult to go there  
>and learn from their research. The tours that were being offered by  
>Food First have been cancelled. This is tragic for the organic  
>movement here which has lots to learn from the cubanos.
>

NewFarm.org (online Rodale-produced magazine) has had some
very interesting articles about farming in Cuba, especially
about the city farms that produce so many vegetables (called
'organoponicos'). 

You can find these article in their archives:

http://www.newfarm.org/archive/index.shtml

Pat
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