Thank you to our 2018 summer interns: Alana, Erin, Sarah, Kyra, Chloe, Danny, Miles and Conner! We managed to do hundreds of bee hours, doing inspections, building equipment and cleaning the apiary. We also made lotion, soap and tincture. We worked with pollen, harvested honey, rendered combs, cleaned beeswax and collected propolis. We did 105…
Tag: Jamaica
Nice article in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper!
The Jamaica Gleaner, the island’s main newspaper, ran a nice two-page spread about us and our soap in the Sunday paper a few weeks ago. Much thanks to Patrick, the photographer, and to Krysta Anderson, the writer of the article.
Thanks to Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Clare Licher
Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Clare Licher came to support our Jamaica Essential Oil Distillation Project.
Intern Abby Cali is more than serious…
Intern Abby Cali from Oberlin College not only went home from Jamaica to lead a sustainable beekeeping class and create a college top bar hive apiary, she also used her beeswax to create a line of products that was sold in the local farmer’s market. For anyone in Ohio who needs some nice, all-natural beeswax…
Summer 2016 Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer Tom Hebert Teaches Sustainable Top Bar Beekeeping
Tom Hebert came back this past July 2016, again as a volunteer through the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer program, administered by Partners of the Americas. Tom’s mission was to support the island’s new top bar beekeepers and to present sustainable top bar hive beekeeping to the more than 100,000 attendees of the Denbigh Agricultural Exposition, Jamaica’s largest annual…
Honey Soap!
Yay! We are making honey soap now. Why not our normal hemp soap? Because we are beekeepers, that’s why! And we just consider the soap to be a value-added product of our beekeeping operation. And we are happy, and the soap is SOOO nice. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Thank you to Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer Clare Licher!
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…
Kwamen Falls
Thank you, Guy and Viv, for this beautiful picture of Kwamen Falls near Black Sand Beach.
Making Soap Again!
(Please click on one of the above photos to see them all magnified!) We finally broke down and started making soap again. It’s so exciting to mix the batches and pour them into the molds, with the smell of the essential oils making the kitchen smell like an herbal paradise. Once the soap is cured, and…
Trainer Sam Comfort
This is a long-overdue blog post. Trainer Sam Comfort, a top bar beekeeper from America, came to Jamaica in September 2013. We had a month of learning from this really interesting man – Sam has such a unique perspective, it is refreshing and inspirational. If anyone can inspire people to color outside the lines of…
Yerba Buena Farm Jamaica 