Being Here – Day to Day Life at Yerba Buena Farm, Jamaica
Baby pineapple
Bees, bees, bees…
Little Kofi
Fixing bicycles, endlessly
Sprawling dog
Taking a break from weed sacking
Having just made rolled foundation candles
Garden produce
Melchizedek loves his pet goat.
Midnight
Kids in the kitchen
Smile for the camera!
Haley’s other little buddy, our demented cat Speng.
Nice harvest
Demonstrating how to properly hold a comb, this little girl is fearless in her shorts and tank top!
Summer time daily harvest from our trees
Coconut drops cooling on a banana leaf (Jamaican wax paper!)
Emmanuel under the stringy mango tree
Having just made tofu and soymilk for the first time, Joshua pouts as he waits impatiently to try it.
Ever-present watermelon
Lovely kitchen table with Kylie, Taylor, calaloo, part of a pollen trap, ackee, an empty honey bottle and loads of Julie mangoes.
Baby ram goats on walkway
Going down into the yard
The view from the beach is lovely!
View from a porch.
Holding honey from a wild hive removal.
After hive inspections, it’s group picture time! That’s intern Taylor in the back row.
Fruit-covered kitchen sink
Ackee
Our first mushroom!
In the garden
Robins Bay Bee Club kids
Typical kitchen scene
More bees…
Green juneplums ready for juicing
Cooked ackee and breadfruit
Jackfruit, jellies and green plantain
A quick snack of sweet potato pudding
Juicy otahiti apple
Kwao building a bamboo hive
Agape and almost all of the boys
A little friend – Beenie Bird
A jackfruit fresh from the tree!
Beautiful sunset
Ribena fruit
Ur little sample smelling box with most of our oils
Night time bonfire at the beach
Bonfire at the beach
At a beautiful view spot
Bull frog!
Two batches of honey soap ready to be cut
Cat family
When you are here, on our farm, you’ll have to take the bad with the good. There are bees, fruit, beaches, flowers – and also mud, mosquitoes, screaming kids, and irritating dogs. Please take a look at our past interns’ blogs (scroll through our blog for links) for first-hand accounts of their daily life here. And you can get some information on these pages about possible activities and excursions, how our cabins look, and where we are on the island.
I have persons interested in doing an excursion on your farm. Can you provide me with cost per person and schedule.
Thank you.
Please contact us by phone 876-343-1121
Yerba Buena Farms , is my view of Paradise , keep up the goo works, blessed love.
Thank you so much!