Green Produce Farm
Long before Agriculture Minister Dr Christopher Tufton 2008 budget speech outlined the need for sustainable food production in Jamaica, the 310-acre Green Produce Farm had been playing its part.Located just on the outskirts of Claremont in St Ann, the farm is owned and operated...
The succulent baby corn
The Production of baby corn is not very popular in Jamaica but Pat Isaacs-Green saw a need and is now the only farmer who grows it on a large scale. Clive Richards, farm manager showed the Lifestyle team how the delectable product is cultivated. In the raving sun, we went through...
Something fishy
There's something fishy going on on the Green Produce Farm.But unlike the usual meaning that comes to mind with that statement, this is actually good stuff. The 'stuff' is called aquaponics. It involves raising tilapia in tanks. Nothing new there, right?
Six sweet varieties of sweet potato
Quarter Million, Clarendon, Eustace, Miss Mac, DOR, FOL (Fire on land) are the six varieties of sweet potato which are grown on the farm. Issacs-Green said the tubers, which take between four to five months to grow, vary in size...
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