The TZU CHI Foundation along with Spaceless Gardens have embark on a journey to build the Agricultural and Vegan health awareness amongst our kids and local community. The project will fully focus on cultivation of a number of organic food while making it a curriculum which the kids will be included.
Local TZU CHI Foundation Founder Ms Sandra Cheung is well known amongst the local communities for the out standing humanitarian work she has done. Realizing the need for agriculture and healthy lifestyle benefits of organic food production locally, she has once again put her heart out to finding a way to making this a reality.
Mrs Cheung and Mr Wyatte strongly believes:
By understanding the need for food security and the great relief it may bring to the buying and spending power of a community, this over the course of time may also be a great asset to a decrease in poverty and eventually a decrease in crime.
This at the end of the day will overall add to Education , Food sustainability, Healthy Lifestyle and the Tourism sectors that we cater and rely on here on St Maarten. Understanding the need to keep our Education and Tourism sectors at it’s peak , Agriculture will play one of the greatest roles within the Education and Tourism economy. Agriculture is just not about planting food, but its about the culture behind it, this is what most tourist leave their country to admire and be enticed by what our Caribbean, South American countries and other world wide nations in diverse cultures have to offer and share. Its also something that we as St Maarteners find least important.
An Eco-Tourism Agricultural Learning Center will be one that would attract Locals and visitors to learn a little bit more about Agriculture, our community, interact with community members, learn about plant types and cultivation here on the island. They will also get a chance to taste what we locally produced. This same procedure could be implemented in other communities throughout the island. This also creates entrepreneurship and jobs.
The main focus will be to transform the existing area into a fully functioning Eco-Tourism Agricultural Learning Center. There is a structure in place already for a learning center and restaurant .. We can develop an organic vegan restaurant concept on the property where they can be a lounge \ eating area where visitors can also enjoy the organic cultivated food, natural fresh juices and Ice Teas made fro herb from the garden…
A project like this will also be able to get more people involved in community gardening, but we first have to develop a way to get others to understand the possibilities, and in a world like today , most people are convinced by seeing…
By Developing the Eco-Tourism Agricultural learning center we will be able to practice the art of cultivation in many forms while focusing on producing a few main crops. This Eco-Tourism Agricultural learning center will act as a mini agricultural station , where schools and members of any community on the island will be able to come and obtain information or help on how to develop and maintain a garden in their back yard or community. The Eco-Tourism Agricultural learning Center may be able to provide seedlings at the capacity of 5000 seedlings every four weeks, dispense cultivated food amongst the less fortunate community members, create job opportunities and create an environment where community members can come and enjoy a well organized, educated garden experience…
Look out for updates on the progress of this project..
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