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New Farmers | Justo Torres | Jose Jiménez | Santovenvia | Pamela Morgan
Sister
Caterina
Seniors get into the act
Sister Caterina never thought she would be helping to manage a farm when she took her post at the Santovenia Senior Citizens Home, not far from Havana’s baseball stadium.
The health of seniors has been particularly vulnerable during Havana’s food crisis. At the Senior Citizens Home the solution was to dig up its front grounds.
Today there are long rows of spinach, peppers, lettuce and tomatoes. The harvest is more than a thousand tonnes a year.
The food helped Santovenia survive the worst of the food crisis.
The residents work on the farm, and Sister Caterina says the exercise keeps them healthy.
In the garden shed is a photograph of revolutionary hero Che Gueverra. It’s a reminder that many of the residents took part in the movement that brought Fidel Castro to power.
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