No worries! There’s a great example of how we’re going to survive when the oil runs out, and it’s been 20 years in the making: Cuba. When all that cheap oil from the old Eastern Bloc got cut off, they had to switch from an oil-fertilizer-pesticide dependent monoculture style of food production to what we know as urban community gardens. Now about 200 of these gardens are feeding the city of Havana.
The details are fascinating and instructive. Did you know that sunflowers attract ladybugs? I didn’t. Could you imagine our urban gardens feeing the entire city of Syracuse? It’s possible.
A great read and a video here at The Vegetable Gardeners of Havana.
Another great article, from 2000, on how it happened in Cuba. No more money going to the international pesticide cartel.



Lonnie,
Please add Syracuse Grows to your blog and links. We are well underway here in Syracuse to support and expand urban agriculture!
http://www.syracusegrows.org
Hi Evan,
All set! Sounds like you have an impressive array of garden and other info there!
Joomla, eh? I’ve been on a job fixing a broken Joomla site for a couple months now – I’ll light a candle for you!