'Tierralismo' – the story of Cuba's most successful urban farm, Organopónico Vivero Alamar

Urban Farm DB summary

This City Farmer News article introduces the 2013 documentary 'TIERRALISMO' (directed by Alejandro Ramirez Anderson) about a 26-acre agricultural cooperative in the Alamar district outside Havana. It notes over half the laborers are elderly, including an 82-year-old worker described as outperforming anyone in their twenties at weeding. It describes the government permitting cooperative formation after the early-1990s Soviet collapse cut access to chemical fertilizers and farm machinery, methods using compost and manure fertilization and self-bred pest-control insects, and workers who transitioned from careers as doctors, fishermen, and oil-industry workers.

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• 26 acres

  farm area(organoponico vivero alamar)

  Design

  region

  Cuba

  method

  documentary Tierralismo (2013)

• 82 years

  oldest worker age(farm labor)

  Social

  region

  Cuba

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