Friday, July 20, 2012

Venezuela launches urban farming initiative (VIDEO)

http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/venezuela-launches-urban-farming-initiative/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GQx1k9kFwA&feature=player_embedded




A fascinating report from Agence France-Presse on one nation’s efforts to reduce the price of food by opening up urban land to community farming. Providing citizens with free seeds, tools, and other materials needed to organically grow food, Venezuela is following in the footsteps of Cuba following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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