After 20 years of Cuba farm tours – organized in cooperation with ANAP – I stopped offering these post Covidl But still bringing groups to Cuba to enjoy the culture, cuisine and community of this amazing island, most recently a group of 13 Canadians in January 2025. Watch this site or imaginecubatravel.com for another in 2026 or contact me to arrange a custom group. Continue reading When is your next tour to Cuba?
Mavis was truly my Cuban sister. She was my hero. She was brave and strong and principled and funny and kind and when she walked into a room the room was better for it. When I was not with a group, I was with Mavis. And Mavis became my teacher. Sitting on the stool in her kitchen, she shared her stories of the Cuban countryside and fed me the dishes she learned from her mother in Palma Soriano. As ANAP’s Head of International relations, Mavis took my groups of visiting Canadian farmers under her protective wing in 2002 and ANAP … Continue reading Mavis our heart is proudly broken. You will remain our hero forever…
Like much of the Cuban experience, Finca Marta, located on the outskirts of Havana, provides a new model for resilient communities. My 2025 Cuba Tour visited Finca Marta and listened to Fernando Funes describe the model he is building. Greatly simplified, a “mother ship” farm like Finca Marta would anchor, inspire, coordinate and provide agricultural extension and marketing support to up to 15 surrounding satellite farms, ensuring the economic and ecological sustainability of local farmers and a steady source of fresh and nutritious food to area households, hospitals, schools, day cares and seniors homes. One farm couple from Ontario … Continue reading Finca Marta
March 2025 Magic sneaks up on you, and all of a sudden you are immersed in it. Like a child in a bubble bath, you find yourself surrounded in and delighted by the magic that happens when good people do good things. Such was my experience taking 13 Canadians to Cuba in January 2025. One traveller brought with them the book Infectious Generosity, which they shared with the rest of us. It quickly began to feel like our theme… Even before we left, there was the spontaneous donation of $1,000 CAD from a dairy farmer couple in Ontario who had … Continue reading Captured by Magic
http://www.imaginecubatravel.com Click here to watch a pdf of the PowerPoint Lecture I gave to the January 2025 group in Varadero before setting out on out journey thought Cuba! Cuban Resilience: Revolution, Evolution and Dancing with Change Continue reading Imagine Cuba Travel
REPORTS ON THE CUBA COOPERATION PROJECT WITH ANAP
December 2014 Project Update – Upcoming Workshop
August 26 2014 Project Update – Announcing Dr. Jesus Cruz as Cuban Advisor
This project received the 2007 AMEC Award for Sustainable Development of Natural Resources or Protection of the Environment at CIDA/CME's 15th Annual Canadian Awards for International Cooperation Fredericton, New Brunswick… CLICK HERE for MEDIA RELEASE
How the Canadian Dairy Farmers felt about their participation.
Continue reading Enhancing Sustainable Dairy Prouction Capacity in Cuba
When the former Soviet Union collapsed, Cuba was forced to reinvent herself.
In 19 years, 863 farmers, students, chefs, professionals and academica have travelled to Cuba with this project in 49 delegations: 624 Canadian farmers in 32 delegations, 137 students in 10 classes, 1 group of 14 scientists and 87 chefs and student chefs in 6 delegations. In 1999, a delegation of 27 Cubans (farmers,agronomists) visited British Columbia. These Delegations – the relationship-building component of the work – continue.