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New Farmers | Justo Torres | Jose Jiménez | Santovenvia | Pamela Morgan
Outsiders
Lending a hand
Although Cuba has a large research capacity in various forms of agriculture, it sought assistance in ways it could help urban agriculture grow.
Pamela Morgan, for example, was a volunteer from Australia. She had experience in the management of a large urban garden in Melbourne.
She offered advice on the kind of small-scale, organic cultivation necessary to grow food in the city. She ran training programs in Havana and worked with a neighbourhood committee to turn a vacant lot in Old Havana into a local source of fresh vegetables and herbs. She lived right in the community.
“The food gets used by the families who work here, but it gets shared around quite a lot,” she said in an interview.
“Produce from gardens will go to the local primary school and the local kindergarten. And there’s the expectation that if you’re growing medicinal plants in particular that it’s available to whoever comes by and needs it.”
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