Urban agriculture is worldwide!

Saw in article on cnn.com about urban agriculture activities worldwide in places like Kenya and British Columbia. It was really cool to read that Canada actually has an Office of Urban Agriculture. The most interesting place though was probably Cuba. The article discussed how Cuba has had vibrant city gardens ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union when they lost their supply of cheap oil. I find it interesting that they went organic not out of choice but necessity. They no longer had oil to power the tractors on the large-scle commercial farms, so they turned to urban gardens to continue to produce food. It makes me wonder if it would take a massive shortage of oil in this country for us to really convert our farming practices to organic. I want to believe that we would do it voluntarily, but it doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon.

I also wanted to say something about this summer and try to figure out who is going to be around to continue to maintain the garden. I guess its something we can talk about in class.