Have you seen that lovely soil being excavated to the east of St.Davids Church.I was born and raised up in an agricultural belt, with some of the best soil on the island, but that was nothing compared to what I am seeing at St Davids.
And on another note. The Draining Unit at present is has undertaken a programmed to clean all the drains of mud and debris. Again much of the mud being taken from these drains, as you would have seen it piled on the pavement,would be like gold to plant nurseries, because this in in fact our best agricultural top soil that has been allowed to wash into the drains.

John

The above was not meant to be taken seriously.

However the level of “nitrates” currently found in the Belle is unlikely to decrease any time soon, if ever, so it will eventually make sense to abandon pumping from there. Instead of installing a return line to Spring Garden, the brine could then be discharged above ground to slowly make its way back to the aquifer.
It could also be used in food preservation creating a new industry that complements the meat and fish farmers.

@Fairplay
With a $42 million church designed to last the next 300 years,there is no way that Holmes Williams and his associate can preach that these are the last days and the world coming to an end soon. But for some of his gullible flock, after hefty donations it will be the end of their world.

Nostradamus

It might be useful to repost your last comment under the most recent blog 🙂

JC
Lef out Georgie. Viagra don’t work at dat age.. try something newer..!

Georgie keep your enemies closer…ha ha haaaa..!

“… or has been converted to its “highest economic value”?”

Perhaps the highest economic value is a full belly

BAFBFP i will call you later today, i was in this aquaponics thing for a while even been in the news paper and even to agrofest.

The only problem you would find is that the info online is not for this climate, but i have done the relevant research and will have a system that is design to thrive in this climate for sale very soon maybe by august.

I Have a book with all the info needed to design build and maintain a system. send your email if you want to take a look.

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To protect all concern please advise email addresses so that BU can facilitate all communication.

Hopi

My answer to your question is who is going to stop the shyte from flowing in the agriculture ministry? You really think Barbadians are going to do it? The Ministry of Agriculture got alot of degree and post graduate degree experts. But what are they doing. VERY LITTLE! You think paying more money will get them off their lazy procrastinating arses. Rather you like it or not, the experts in Barbados do not get on like experts. Talk does not make for good progress unless it is put to action. All we do bout hey is talk a bunch of shyte (like you) because we do not want to admit that we lack so much in our ability to solve some of the most simplest of issues. The industrial outside world ain’t industrial by sitting around and talking a bunch of shyte (like you). They put their money where their mouth is and now reaping rewards for it. If the over and away people come here and rip us off, I think we deserve it. Why, because the thiefing, corrupt bunch of politicians and their big up corrupt government lackeys too busy getting rich and making deals to care much about what really matters. Them too rubbing shyte in we face but I ain’t hearing you say the same ole shyte all over again. I say remove the crap and reap the crop- bring in the experts from over and away.

@Johnny ……What the shyte are you talking about? You got to be a real Johnnie Come Lately because if this is the only thread you’ve read with any of my comments you way off base. The people of Barbados who don’t NEED degrees, who have tilled the soil and fed us before are the same people who can do it. And I KNOW of some who actually do that. They don’t wait hand and foot on any government. I say DON’T bring no damn experts to Barbados to feed the people. The same salary you gonna pay an ‘expert’ take that and pay the locals to do the same job. The only time the politickians will get the message is when the people totally reject them and take matters into their own hands. You really think an ‘expert’ give a shyte bout you? Always ready to reject and put down your own for some damn stranger! Since you’re so in love with ‘experts’ why don’t you import your own and watch them poison ya ass!

Johnny Postle + Hopi

I was just wondering what the two of wanna think is the best way for Barbados to achieve %100 food security.

Do we look for a %100 new way? If so what way do you think it is, or could be? Or do we go back to the kitchen garden?

Hopi??

If Barbados is really serious about agriculture, why no recognition by this poor-rakey DLP administration that the problem for agriculture is not access to land, but acces to labour?

Then why the inhumane immigration policy?

Why deport CARICOM nationals at a time when Chinese are going to people who were living on land for a half of a century, and threatening to bulldoze those house, just to build a guard wall?

Chinese!

Imagine, Barbadian construction workers cannot get work; unemployment rising within the construction sector but Chinese working: “bout hey.”

And the DLP talks about being “patriotic,” as regards it inhumane, hard-line deportation policy towards Caribbean people, at a time when Chinese are threating to push down houses owned by bajans.

And there is no outrage! Chinese!!!

Lord Save us!

See what I tell you about looking back, and having absolutely nothing constructive to add to development and progressive transformation, even after having 14 years to plan.

But let us play your game:

Which party was in office when unemployment reached its lowest ever and even lower that European countries?

Which party was in office when Barbados amassed $2.7 billion in foreign reserves? The reserves that now save barbados from the hip-pocket of the IMF?

Which party was in office when the Pope praised Barbados for its humane policy on poverty eradication?

Which party was in office when the UN Secrtetary General praised Barbados’ judgment, integrity, and leadership?

Which Party was in office when people did not have to pay income tax on the first $25,000 and land tax on the first $150,000 and were given a reversed tax credit?

Sir, when the BLP was in office there was a shortage of labour.

Are you at all concerned that May 15, has passed – yet the DLP cannot release unemployment figures for the last quarter?

Isn’t remarkable the the DLP is deporting Caribbean people but Chinese are here threatening to push down the home of people who were living on the land for the past 50 years?

Talk about “conterfeit patriotism!”

Typical DLP froath, (hog wash) which explains why the DLP was in Opposition for 14 consecutive years, and would be still there had not for Clico’s millions.

I post substance, you respond with trademark – “intellectually weak DLP froath.”

It is not surprising why the DLP is deporting Caribbean people but Chinese are here threatening to push down the home of people who were living on the land for the past 50 years?

That the DLP is focussed on deporting Caribbean people – is only a reprieve for PSV employees, poor people; public servants; taxi men; motorists; vendors and the rastafarian community.

But the Mini-Budget will come!!!!

Save your puke and smut for your peers. I never was and will never be that far down the food chain.

But had not for men like Wilberforce and Grantley Adams and others – you would be on my plantation picking pond grass.

Remember a few years back when thugs from a certain constituency were commiting crime and the then M.P., has cause to speak to them?

They told him that they are not going to vote for him and he promptly told them: “I do not want you to vote for me – keep your vote or vote for the DLP.”

The simple point that I am trying to make is that I am not going to subject myself to the indignity of your crap.

For what! A vote? Keep it!

But since neither you nor Negroman seem capable of figuring it out, here is Why Knight Templar:

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The Knights Templar trace their origin back to shortly after the First Crusade. Around 1119, a French nobleman from the Champagne region, Hugues de Payens, collected eight of his knight relatives including Godfrey de Saint-Omer, and began the Order, their stated mission to protect pilgrims on their journey to visit The Holy Places.

They approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem, who allowed them to set up headquarters on the southeastern side of the Temple Mount, inside the Al Aqsa Mosque. Since the Temple Mount was the site of biblical King Solomon’s Temple the Order took the name “The Poor Knights of the Temple of King Solomon”, which later became abbreviated to “Knights Templar”.

Little was heard of the Order for their first nine years. But in 1129, after they were officially sanctioned by the church at the Council of Troyes, they became very well-known in Europe.

Their fundraising campaigns asked for donations of money, land, or noble-born sons to join the Order, with the implication that donations would help both to defend Jerusalem, and to ensure the charitable giver of a place in Heaven.

The Order’s efforts were helped substantially by the patronage of Bernard of Clairvaux, the leading churchman of the time, and a nephew of one of the original nine knights.

The Order at its outset had been subject to strong criticism, especially of the concept that religious men could also carry swords.

In response to these critics, the influential Bernard of Clairvaux wrote a multi-page treatise entitled De Laude Novae Militae (“In Praise of the New Knighthood”), in which he championed their mission and defended the idea of a military religious order by appealing to the long-held Christian theory of just war, which legitimated “taking up the sword” to defend the innocent and the Church from violent attack.

By so doing, Bernard legitimised the Templars, who became the first “warrior monks” of the Western world.

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Of Knight Templar, Bernard of Clairvaux, wrote:

“A Templar Knight is truly a fearless knight, and secure on every side, for his soul is protected by the armor of faith, just as his body is protected by the armor of steel.

He is thus doubly-armed, and need fear neither demons nor men.”

One of the tenets of their religious order was that they were forbidden from retreating in battle.

Now!!!

Take your place “BOY.”

On the topic of onions, why is such a small issue creating so much stress for the Minister of African Snails and Rat Poison and the DLP, which had all the answers when in Opposition?

What next, sweet peppers?

@Ready-Done…..Let me tell you a little something! As I noted previously, I grew up with my grandmother tilling the land with about every staple that was necessary for nutrition. And almost everyone in Barbados with a couple sq ft of land around their house grew their food and bartered with their neighbours. And this food was grown ‘organically’ and without the help of ova n’ away ‘experts.’ And the nation was fed. My parents preserved their ground provision for times of scarcity. I say the same thing can be done today. Don’t sit around and wait on any government. All the governments care about is passing legislation to protect big business whilst getting a cut, and giving you the crumbs to keep you alive so that you can return to the plantation day in and day out to slave for the money grubbers. The problem with your average bajan is that they have become too ‘intelligent’ to know/learn about growing their own food and to that lot as well as the other mealy mouthers, I say to let them eat crow. Barbados has the capacity to feed herself and stop importing poison. The local grown food taste way better than the imported garbage. I’m yet to taste a banana that’s better than Barbados’

Hopi wrote
I’m yet to taste a banana that’s better than Barbados’

It is for that reason that I find it very hard to buy a banana or mango or any fruit that is grown in my mother’s yard here in FL! I prefer to go without!

Gaw blimah. I gine tell ya now that I ain’t giving no ideas to know one in this country for nothing. So do not even ask me what solutions to the agri-crisis. All Hopi talking about is he grand-mur and grand-far planting this and that and not starving. How much choices did they had back in those days. This shyte, Hopi, talking about days that when you speak to any old person they always lament how hard they had to work and how long they had to work, for a few meagre pennies trying to feed them starving children. Unless Hopi was one of them well to do blacks, many bajans can attest to hard realities of the yesteryear life.

Since those days what strives have agriculture made that are beneficial to us now. Agriculture by the black masses in this country is seen as a low key career. We were thought to look to jobs with prestige and status; not poop, piss, dirt and hot sun to turn is blacker. With the type thinking existing today; I gine tell ya that a lot of bajans do not want to offset their bleaching creams.

Also you think that we have painted agriculture in a light that people can see its value and lucrativity? Agriculture carries a bad name in this country and our systems has made it so. Back then it was cane and more cane. Now the cane soon gone we certainly do not know what to do now to make this sector profitable. We are so F’ing foolish that we took we black belly sheep and sell its genetic seed to the over and way people for them to tell the world, black belly sheep belong to them and it is the best lamb in the world. In fact the same people soon selling back to us. And you telling me shyte about we got Bajans here who can do it!!! Chuuuupse. I dare you HOBI to round them up and bring and let us see the resurrection of agriculture by the one eye blind man. How the heck we expect agriculture to go anywhere when we does sell of our assets. If the over and away people know what to do let them come here and do it. Barbados in interested in developing industry. We interested in tourist white man coming to this place. If the shyte that Jobby or HOPI or what the ass he chooses to call himself think that a few kitchen gardens will make us all right I think he betters think again.

Focus

@ Johnny Postle

You said:
“Talk does not make for good progress unless it is put to action.”
“I say remove the crap and reap the crop”
“Now in this age, we need advancements to improve our agricultural yields”
“There is a need for real science in developing our agriculture product.”
“Because the thinking of Barbados is skewed towards individual needs”

FOCUS

@Hopi

you said:

when the people totally reject them and take matters into their own hands

, I grew up with my grandmother tilling the land with about every staple

everyone in Barbados with a couple sq ft of land around their house grew their food

this food was grown ‘organically’

The problem with your average bajan is that they have become too ‘intelligent’ to know/learn about growing their own food