Tag: culture
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SMFC Farmers Market Sat April 19, 2025 – The Road to Sustainability
St Peters, – We often hear the word Sustainability when it comes to promising us the St Maarten people a better future. But, do we and those that have the duty to lead us in to a prosperous all inclusive future, truly understand what the word ‘’ Sustainability’’ really means ? Let’s take a lil…
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SMFC ANNOUNCES NEXT MARKET DATE & Thanks the community for a successful launch event
The St Maarten Farmers’ Cooperative (SMFC) extends heartfelt gratitude to the community for their overwhelming support and attendance at the grand opening of our Farmers’ Market and Distribution Center on June 29th. The event, held on L.B. Scott Road in St Peters, was a resounding success, with a fantastic turnout and enthusiastic participation from both…
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St Maarten Farmers Cooperative (SMFC) Invites Public to First Major Project Event
**St Maarten, June 24, 2024** – The St Maarten Farmers Cooperative (SMFC) is proud to announce its official launch, marking a significant milestone in the island’s agricultural sector. The SMFC is dedicated to pooling the resources of its members to enhance the production and distribution of locally grown fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, flowers and agro-processed products.…
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CX March 2024 – Get up and Stand UP
Its truly been awhile since covid that my writers block would not seem to vanish. Just the circumstance at times allow you to drift into a state of mind that if your not careful, you can loose your path along the way. Not that I have lost my path, but really lost the motivation to…
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Money Grows on Trees
St Peters – Its been an amazing past 8 months putting this project together. Every step of the way, everyday you face a challenge that allows you to exercise your mind and actions toward finding the right solution mentally, physically, spiritually or financially. You can never tell the challenges you may face until you take…
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Get up and Stand Up with R4CR!
St Peters – The 1973 Hit Song Slogan by the great Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, today plays one of the greatest roles towards motivating many community oriented activist. The phrase GET UP, STAND UP, stimulates our minds and souls to ACT ! Act on behalf of nature, cultural preservation, injustice, prejudice, workers rights, quality…
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Finding Purpose – ECO Learning with CDFHA & Spaceless Gardens
Great Bay— The Department of Community Development, Family & Humanitarian Affairs (CDFHA) in collaboration with Spaceless Gardens is hosting its “ECO Learning program focused on Agroecology” starting on Monday May 30, 2022. The eight (8) week program combines virtual/theoretical and hands on training that focuses primarily on agri-cultural \ home gardening practices . The sessions will…
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Cultural Xpression | Recovery and the Pandemic – Jan 2021
It’s been awhile since I got behind the pc to actually get Cutural Xpression back on track.. It’s challenging to not have a stable income, while the economical challenges become over whelming, not only for myself and family, but for many others who today may still are out of work.. I am truly grateful…
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USM intern evaluates agriculture for school curricula.
By Dr Antonio Carmona Beaz After two full years of restoring its academic programming and securing accreditation for its degree programmes, following Hurricane Irma, the University of St. Martin (USM) finally opened its doors to student internships from abroad to help push research in the community. The first student intern arrived in September from the…
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Cultural Xpression March 2020 | Giving Purpose to the Intangible
This month was quite a journey and it seem to have just begun. From the new Corona Pandemic that will seem to reshape the way we do things in our daily lives, to taking a trip to Saba and Statia with a group of researchers seeking to address the catastrophic environmental challenges facing Caribbean islands…