Learning about Sustainable Farm Methods in Cuba

This week we spent most of our time in the classroom due to the poor weather. On Monday in class, we started watching a documentary on farming methods in Cuba. The movie talked about how Cuba had to overcome the loss of resources from the Soviet Union. It showed some of the agricultural transformations that they had to make in order to deal with the loss of resources for farming and to become more sustainable.Cuba had to scale down all of their industrial farms because they were no longer able to use large machinery in the fields. As a result of this they had to go back to the older farming techniques that involved using animals. The government also helped by giving open land to the farmers for free. This increased the number of small farms in Cuba and made the job of being a farmer more respectable and higher paying. Overall, the way that Cuba handled the transformation was good and resulted in making Cuba have a more organic and sustainable farming system. On Tuesday we continued watching the movie and finished it in class. On Wednesday in class, we learned about different farming techniques and how they are used and also researched some local farms that use some of these techniques.