A tank as a garden shed. Preparation of a garbage dump in Cojimar
The rurale, would the place-bound knowledge re-estimated, was delighted the gardener Suleyha in Bahía, his plot preferably in an educational center for adults and wants to transform a school garden for children. Already in December 2009, four years after breaking ground, the place meant more to him than some of his apartment building and determined as it suggests the original function. Suleyha grub sowed and plowed on a former garbage dump for industrial waste to of still a tank, built in 1946, is from the GDR. The Government a and neighbors to respect the garden, Suleyha leased the land to build a green laboratory for testing decontamination strategies.
Suleyha: "This was once a garbage dump. One place left to itself. Everything was thrown, without thinking. A very bad place because there was no end of troubles. The balance was destroyed and no longer be reconciled. Therefore, the continued comunidad (community) committed to the ecological balance and social restore balance. A very important matter, in order to separate the good from the bad, to finally eliminate the bad can. (...) Well, as we had done that, I started to plant bananas, yuca, boniato, malanga, but the ground was of such poor quality that the products produced nothing. Although they grew up, but they bore no fruit. So I said to myself: Well, I'll just sow trees. Avocado, mango, guava, custard apple 2 , well, at least 25 different types of fruit. Particularly important to the quality the floor was that I planted walnut trees and palms, exotic woods, cedar and the rain tree 3 , these are also materials from which furniture is made. I became almost crazy because I must win this earth again and again they wanted to make it habitable. I want to tell the truth: Everything works in this way - to do what is there advantage as the development of cultural, ecological agriculture, to learn from the young people and children and many adults. They change the field. And then, so I say this - they gain experience for what they forgot. For not everything needs fertilizer. Soil food are those dry leaves. This old dump is a reprocessing plant. That makes life there is always the best. "
Suleyha had comunidad with his friends the exempt from the trash problems and gave them the same time a vain-garden in which they can make use of the ripe fruit. He solved the disposal problem that had arisen from the industrial use of common land inconsistent with the strategies of the utilities that it legally because it belonged to a cooperative entitled, but through the cultivation of forgotten endemic, spiritual and medicinal plants. prepared more concerned than the household waste it first industrial wastes, such as the 35-ton armored DDR, which could not be disposed of with physical force. Therefore, he was quickly painted pink, as well as other objects that are reminiscent of the earlier use of the place. End of 2007 grew fruit trees and shrubs here, but no root tubers, because this is the quality of the soil even after 11 years of careful recovery is not good enough. Suleyha said that the quality is sufficient for tree fruits. When I asked how he knew since there may well be that the fruits are contaminated, he said, this too would have taught him his family. I learned from him in addition to the importance of individual trees for the improvement of the soil and planting to be effective against soil erosion, such as traditional knowledge is the land for the urban reality utilized. So I want to name the aid of the theory Andrea Heist ingers, more precisely, what this "knowledge" is based and from which it differs:
- empirical knowledge does not claim to be universal, but is open to changing conditions.
- It differs from the static notion of "tradition" or the "earth". The term "traditional" is not accurate to Heistinger, being neither a spatial nor a temporal called socio-historical context (See Heistinger 2001: 77). It is used to describe one part of plant breeding at indigenous to describe the opposite of a professional plant breeding. On the other hand, the term refers to the scientific discipline methods that are developed there for about a century were. Following this logic, says Andrea Heistinger that have been in this conceptual scheme before any plant breeding would need (ibid.). The concept of traditional plant breeding gives the impression as if there had been only plant breeding in the last century, since he is now the concept of modern culture is compared.
- Unlike traditional instrumented term that claims to property, are legitimate and which the "flair of the good" attached to land, power and resources, different Andrea Heistinger, following Hobsbawm, between tradition and custom (Hobsbawm 1993: 2 in Heistinger ibid.). In practice familiar in style and meaning is carried further: "This allows the transformation of things in my view, in my hands. The thread of the plot and the acting is not endlessly excited by the presence in the future, but there are some very tense, intertwined, interconnected, colored, amplified, clipped and tied together again, where it's needed is - its use is meaningful "(ibid. 78).
can use this concept of usable knowledge and experience for the gardener in Havana say they have acquired their skills through their own experimentation. In order for this form of knowledge is not only contrary to the traditional concept that, because of scientific interpretation into ordinary language moved. The validity of empirical knowledge must now also against globalized "knowledge management" prove, as the recycling programs of the new policy field "Urban Waste Management Strategy" (see, Cofie / Adam-Bradford, Drechsel: 2006) provide for the gardeners who rely on the support of the state to be eligible to host a plot. About the cooperatives are the gardeners, as already mentioned, support campaigns offered. The strange thing in the programs is that they separate the environmental problems of the history and characteristics of the place of "cleaned" or newly built or to be plowed. The programs will be applicable at any time and any place. They are without locality and which are beyond the tangible world. In addition, the proponents fail to recognize the urban-waste-strategy the motivation of the gardener, building from frustration over the situation itself ambientale new relationships to nature. Thus they miss the important role of listening and understanding.
to understand that local knowledge is available, it would suffice actually listen to them and to be infected by their ingenuity: In contrast to international aid programs, the use of targeted strategies for recovery of waste and have organic remnants of plants to the center, Suleyha requires no additional "input" material or ideological Art
He wishes for the future that more schools can go there in an "outdoor classroom", his Trockenklokonstruktion already provides two separate areas for children and adults. to visit the place of training, in which the purposes of the decentralization of the responsibility of state control to the respective "community" 4 conducted, cherishes and cares for Suleyha the plants, mean to him personally and his social environment, something. This leads him not to the rates of return but the fact that the forces of the plants and the earth together and change the location so that a new balance between natural cycles and human action arises. The former policeman chooses exactly which fruits he sows. Each tree is linked to the Cuban story, the many facets he never tires of telling. When he my friend phone and showed me the fruit, he told stories, mostly from his home, the Interior came. In addition, the plants offered for him a suitable means to political to speak.
Suleyha "Mamey Santo Domingo was his old name. This is a red fruit, you eat like fruit, but only if the tree is 20 years old, it bears fruit at all. Knew that our State is not the triumph of the revolution. They had no awareness of ecological balance and our state, the need to let you imagine, clearing all Mameybäume! Previously, Cuba was the main exporter of the fruit was in the world. But was cleared to the café Catura to plant and export. You know what happened to it. " (indicated with a sweeping arm movement, so that it is over and No words worth more) .
" If the fruit tree is 60 years old, he will multiply his income still. Some religious people believe that (the cutting down, dk) has triggered a curse for Cuba. This shrub is sacred! It is one of Changó 5 . Not only to Chango, Santos and many other. He is even older than the mango! "
a The strategy " limpiar primero y después Sembrar " by Alvarez in 2000 was specifically addressed in a book.
2 cherimoya (Annona cherimola or chirimuyu Quechua), is considered a "cold fruit." In South America and Spain, it is also called custard apple or Churimoya. It is an evergreen, low branched tree or shrub that grows up to nine meters high. The fruits have a green skin, the seeds lie in the white meat.
3 The All tree "algarrobo" z ählt to the legumes. (Pithecellobium saman Lat, Leguminosae).
4 For community - see Glossary term of the present. Ulrich Bröckling, Krasmann and Lemke (Eds.) Frankfurt aM2004.
5 The Orisha Chango is one of the most powerful deities in the pantheon of Regla de Ocha or Santería. He is represented by Saint Barbara in Catholicism and in the Palo Monte by Siete Rayos. He has power over fire uA.
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