Sundance film festival: Kombit, Haiti's blossoming micro-garden movement - video

[Judi Lynn]

Sundance film festival: Kombit, Haiti's blossoming micro-garden movement - video

A micro-garden movement to combat post-earthquake hunger and despair in Cité Soleil, a poor neighbourhood in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is uniting communities. The movement, which involves citizens working together to grow food, is inspiring families and restoring residents' pride.

Kombit is a Sundance Institute short film challenge winner. Entries are open for next year's competition

Length: 6min 53sec,
theguardian.com ,
Thursday 1 May 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2014/may/01/sundance-film-festival-kombit-haiti-micro-garden-video

Video at link.

[dipsydoodle]

1. One origin of that was Cuba as a result of the oil crisis.

A documentary was made on the subject back in 2007.

The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2007) http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Community-Cuba-Survived/dp/0910420327/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399109636&sr=8-1&keywords=power+of+community

Also on Youtube in 4 parts :

In a nutshell you create a vegetable garden using building blocks as a surround laid straight onto concrete or hard ground. Eight inches or so of hyper fertile soil is sufficient to grow most veggies and keep a family healthy with any spare being sold on. You see them in backyards in Cuba when driving past in a bus whatever.