The BBC has a interesting short presentation on Permaculture in Cuba: The vegetable gardeners of Havan
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But hey! The Cubans have made so radically chic to be a red green thumb as my a refit of my own kitchen garden (pic above) attests. I call it Little Havana.
It's now so very cool to dig!
Havana has almost 200 urban allotments - known as organiponicos - providing four million tonnes of vegetables every year - helping the country to become 90% self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables...If you check out the permaculture Label here on Leftclick You'll access much more about this phenomenon.
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But hey! The Cubans have made so radically chic to be a red green thumb as my a refit of my own kitchen garden (pic above) attests. I call it Little Havana.
It's now so very cool to dig!