Making the most of the patios and plots for food production is the call made by the country's highest authorities to all our people, in order to help solve the economic situation we are going through at the moment, worsened in recent times by the measures of the imperialist blockade against our nation.
An example that shows that “When you want, you can”, was found by this collaborator in the Dovales neighborhood, belonging to the Las Calabazas Popular Council, when visiting the home of the young Denia Pérez Escobar, only 28 years old, who tends her wonderful patio in CDR 8 of Zone 34.
"...Here I have planted more than 30 donkey plants, some already in production, banana for my seven-year-old boy who loves it, several avocado plants that I have already consumed in this harvest and have given to my neighbors, also pumpkin, vine beans, sago yucca, several bomba fruit plants in production..."
Denia Pérez Escobar works as a primary teacher in the René Fraga Moreno Territorial Unit of the Maceo intersection with a multigrade that includes the fourth, fifth and sixth grades and also studies the teaching career at the Municipal University Center. In one of the moments of her exchange with the young woman, she referred to the time she dedicates to this wonderful patio, which even in rainy weather does not have a single grass.
“…I attend to the crops that you can see here in my free time, especially on weekends, I am always aware when a weed comes out and I eliminate it, that is why you do not see any here, because I also work with the state but this task has become an obligation since here I have guaranteed part of the food for my 7-year-old son and mine and for several months I have not had to buy, especially the food that is very expensive…”
Examples like that of this young teacher should be multiplied throughout our country, because in addition to occupying the free time of those who do not like to work, part of the household food is guaranteed, so scarce and expensive in these difficult times, and demonstrating that "When you want, you can".
