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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
I dunno. I flew into Bogota (Colombia) a few years back, and from the air, the view was greenhouses....for fucking miles on end (Colombia supplies most of the cut flowers for North America)
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Can confirm. In Niagara there are a ton of greenhouses for growing plants and flowers in addition to food and I've heard this. Colombia has some of the best biodiversity on the planet so they grow tons of varieties of flowers and Niagara greenhouses import a lot of them direct from Colombia.
I've probably stated this a few times before, but I know a Colombian guy and his wife that reside in St. Catharines.
They import coffee directly from his wife's cousin's farm in the highlands not too distant from Medellín (where the couple is originally from).
Their coffee is
literally the best I've ever tried. With
Westonianflation in Canada the past few years, they've had to raise their prices quite a bit.
My friend told me they've had their coffee analyzed by the official international coffee certification org and it's in rated something like in the top 20% in the world. If you try it, you understand why.
Also, you are supporting a
fair trade family business that controls the entire process, not some Billion dollar corporate conglomerate and worker abuses.
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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
And a good deal of the cocaine too.
Can you grow coca plants in greenhouses???
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lol
because they can grow pretty much everything in Colombia, the downside is that cocaine is still an export. But my friend in St. Catharines from Medellín and one in Bogotá both tell me things are a lot better in 2023 than the Escobar Cartel days for Medellín and Colombia as a whole.
Venezuela went from 1980s boom country to their money being so worthless you could wallpaper your house with it. My friend in Bogotá told me 4 million plus Venezuelans have fled to Colombia because life in Venezuela is awful, one of the worst countries in all Latin/South America right now.
The TVO program Life Sized City did a nice city doc on Medellín. A city rising from the terrible times of the Escobar era. Not without its share of problems, but it's apparently much much safer than 20-40 years ago.
I really like this series and host Mikael Colville-Andersen a Canuck with Danish roots that lives in Copenhagen.
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