Cultivating Havana/special event

Herban Kitchen (adam@Herban.com)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 21:49:44 -0400

Just a quick note regarding the Cultivating Havana talk posted
recently. I was fortunate to attend the talk this week in New York City
and it was terrific. I highly recommend it to anyone within the Madison
area and for future cities as they continue the tour (call Food First at
510-654-4400 or e-mail foodfirst@igc.apc.org for more tour cities and
dates).

It is truly amazing to see what the people of Havana have been able to
do working together to feed themselves clean healthy food, grown right
outside their front doors - talk about fresh! Because of the trade
blockade, they had no choice but to go organic because they lost all
their agrichemicals. They even use oxen because they lost their access
to petroleum and tractor parts. But out of this adversity, they now
have developed a program that produces biological controls for pests and
even a government sponsored program which produces medicines from plants
(since they also lost their access to pharmaceuticals).

Makes you really think sometimes that less is more.

Best to all,

Adam Ruderman

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