This story should motivate us all.
Cuba. A nation that is 80 percent urban. At one time, almost completely dependent upon its subsidized food shipments from the Soviet Union. The collapse of the USSR put a swift end to those food shipments. Imagine what that would be like.
Miladis Bouza suddenly found herself making the equivalent of $3/month at her job as a research biologist. She quit and with her husband began farming a half-acre lot near her home. She sells her excess bounty, and her neighbors once again have affordable vegetables. And she makes several times the average government salary doing it.
