Maybe, my saint, you didn t come because you believed the rumors about food shortages. I have been helping the farmers of Havana feed the people. Each day growing food and eating lots. This is what inspires me most of all about Cuba. Organic vegetables grown in the city, sold at the farm, created and supported by the state and run by the people.
Farmers are respected professionals here.
There are schools to train them while they work and good wages to be earned. The head farmer at the organoponico tells me I should ask my government for some unused land and start my own urban farm in Canada, like he did here. They do not understand when I say it is not that simple. There are 16 other urban farms in Havana like the one I work one and many more across the country. I visited a small organoponico in playa municipality, two days later a tourist building was erected in it s place.