Permaculture in Cuba: Urban Agriculture in Havana

Photos of Permaculture in Havana

25k Luis and rooftop passionfruit vine
Santa Fe, Havana - view of bungalow from roadway, Luis Sanchez standing in front of gate, large passion fruit vine above roof. Example of use of vertical space. A rooftop garden.

22kb type before-permaculture
A typical suburban house in Havana before permaculture! Street cleaner man with pushcart on roadway, kerbed concrete footpath behind with 2-storey house with green lawn

36kb - banana from afar
3 straw-hatted men, two holding the flower head of fruiting 4m banana behind, large leafed vine (pumpkin) under banana, rock-edged path to right. To left, rock-edged brown soil path, younger 2m bananas to right. Santa Fe, Havana.

31kb Close up of banana
Closeup of the above photo: Two straw-hatted men holding fruiting banana flower head, large leafed vine (pumpkin) below.
farmer ploughing with ox
960105 - Hatted farmer ploughing redsoil field with tan ox, fence of barbed wire and sprouting stakes (ie. living fence - fodder) in foreground
ploughing farmer smiling
960105 - Closeup of same farmer, smiling, at his plough in red soil paddock


Return to the Web page of the ACF Urban Permaculture Project in Cuba at http://www.peg.apc.org/~adamt/cuba

Contact Adam Tiller, Cuba Project Manager, at the ACF in Melbourne:
tel: (+61 3) 9416 1166, email: <adamt@peg.pegasus.oz.au>


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