Thank you to Farmer to Farmer volunteer Clare Licher Jamaica is blessed with an abundance of essential oil-bearing trees and plants, but the once-thriving local distillation industry died off decades ago. The distillation of essential oils offers local farmers the chance to make use of plant material that is currently unused or wasted, such as…
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Summer 2014 with Trainer Tom Hebert
Tom Hebert, a three-year Farmer-to-Farmer trainer at Yerba Buena Farm, spent July 2014 teaching beekeepers an easy record keeping method and leading Build Your Own Foundation Mold workshops. Unfortunately, I’m not able to upload the pictures I need to document his time here this past summer. He visited a Blue Mountain coffee farm and traveled…
Our Trainers
We are looking forward to the Sunday, January 12 arrival of a new team of volunteer Farmer to Farmer trainers, Les Crowder and Laura Ferguson. They are scheduled to spend a month traveling around the island, leading hands-on value added products workshops for beekeepers through the parish Bee Farmers Associations. We feel so grateful to…
Partners of the Americas Farmer to Farmer Blog Features Our Project
Here’s what they had to say (and if you’d like to visit their actual blog page, click here): Cultivating Change: Farmer to Farmer Blog Promoting economic growth, agricultural development and volunteer service in the Americas. Top-Bar Beekeeping 101: Sustainable Beekeeping in St. Mary, Jamaica Example of a top-bar hive. Today marks the beginning of Tom Hebert’s…
Yerba Buena Farm Jamaica 