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RE: My trip to Cuba...Dictatorship and Paradise!!! 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
Very interesting, @lulita. There is one thing about Cuba I've been very curious about. It has to do with urban gardens / farms. I've never been myself, but I've heard that when the Soviet Union collapsed and stopped sending cheap food to Cuba, the locals took the initiative to convert many parks, rooftops, and other public spaces into urban farms to produce food. Of course a lot of time has passed since then, but I was wondering if you can still see these kind of urban farms. I can imagine they would have gotten bigger and more established since then, but I'd be interested in how you saw it.
That was true. In the 90's the situation was really bad and they turned their gardens, patios, etc into mini farms to grow their own food, but it was just for few years because the government found its way to press the real farmers and bring food to the cities.
Well, that makes sense. I was hoping that situation would have evolved a culture of urban farming. But if nothing else, at least it goes to show that a crisis like that can be avoided, or at least alleviated, should our food transport system fail, for whatever reason.
The Cuban spirit is "whatever it takes"...