Tag: ST MAARTEN
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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’s Next Farmers Market set for July 27, 2024
St Peters – The St Maarten Farmers Cooperative, Once again would like to thank the general pubic for showing its consistent interest and support towards our community farmers market. Community members once again got a chance, took pleasure and enjoyed getting their hands on a range of local and regional produce, plants, gardening supplies, juices,…
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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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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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The amazing Health benefits of Annatto the Super Food
I’ve Been growing Annatto for a while now in my garden. I Love the way the plant grows so vigorous and full of life and color. Annatto also regionally known as achiote, achiotillo, bija, urucum, atsuete and especially roucou by our Caribbean brothers and sisters. It can be found in some of the popular snacks…
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Nutrition, Are you Healthy? – ECO Learning Week 7
As we come to the final week of the ECO Learning Program, I want to express a heart full of love and joy for those that took advantage to gain the additional knowledge on Agro-Ecology. As we come to the end of Week 7 where we covered various topics within the scope of nutrition, we…
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Eco Learning Week 4 – Plant Care, Maintenance & Plant Production Systems
4 Weeks later, great progress has been made with participants of the ECO Learning Program focused on Agro-Ecology. Week 4 covered very vital topics such as Plant Care and Maintenance, Plant Production Systems, Fertilizers, Pesticides and Transplant Shock. Now, understanding why we should be planting towards impacting positive climate action, we went ahead and germinated…
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Cultural Xpression May 2022 Edition | Small Islands with Big Covid Impacts
This months edition of Cultural Xpression is a continuation of Dec 2021 Edition as we get our content organize to share with you guys. Over the next few weeks your can expect to see the release of June and July 2022 edition of CX It has been a journey mentally to get the ball rolling…
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Way the Cakes Gone ? | Cultural Xpression Dec 2021
Sitting by the roadside location in St Peters this year was a bit different during Christmas season. It was not the first time I really notice it, but this year it was really evident. The air lack the beautiful aromas of what usually came out from our surrounding neighbors kitchens, the smell of delicious treats…