The backyard farmer
Walking tour & SEASONAL FRUITS TASTING at the property
Sunday 31 July | 8am
389 Anton Bodden Drive
Bodden Town, Grand Cayman
Cost: $5 per person (aged 4+)
If you missed the Herbal Remedies walking tour at QE II Botanic Park in April, we have another exciting tour this summer that you will not want to miss!
CC Bush Club Leads Erik Leacock and Hannah Reid Ford will be walking and talking with the group at The Backyard Farmer property in Bodden Town on Sunday, 31 July along with owners Jennifer and George Bodden.
This tour will combine discussions on bush medicines, permaculture, biodiversity, traditional Caymanian farming practices with historical information about the slave wall, a tasting of crops in season (hoping for dragon fruit, “Ju” plums, gooseberries, mulberries, guavas and some late season sour sops!) and more.
Email us for details and to book your spot!
The Backyard Farmer is a small, family owned and operated farm in Bodden Town. We produce hot peppers, fruits, vegetables, root crops fand fresh eggs. What we can’t sell, or use ourselves, we manufacture into homemade products from our harvest, and then sell online, while supplies last. Join our Facebook Group if you want to get in on the sales at The Backyard Farmer, Cayman Islands.
Some of our manufactured products that are sold are homemade ice creams, pepper sauces, seasoning blends, jellies, jams, pepper jelly, soaps, sugar scrubs, body butters and other bath and spa products.
All of our home crafted soaps, scrubs, butters, and other body products are made with as much locally produced coconut oil, raw honey, fruits, vegetables, aloe, and herb infusions as can be grown in the Cayman Islands. Other ingredients include… essential oils, herb, spices, cane sugar, sea salt, beeswax, shea; cocoa; avocado; and mango butter, vitamin E, and oatmeal… READ MORE
IMPORTANT INFO
- Wear closed toe shoes as the property is rocky and uneven to places and when it rains it can be slippery.
- As it is mosquito season bug repellant can be helpful.
- Bring a wide brimmed hat and/or sunscreen as well as water.
- Photography and videography are encouraged!
“What people don’t understand, they won’t value; what they don’t value, they won’t protect; and what they don’t protect, they will lose.” – Charles Jordan
Did You Know?
It is a little known fact that our property sits on part of a larger area known as the ‘slave wall’. Although little is recorded in our written history on this testament of time long gone, an article in the 1974 Issue of The Northwester gives an oral account of this piece of our history as told to Mrs. Mary Lawrence by then 82 year old resident of Bodden Town Mrs. Netty Levy.
Mrs. Levy recants the stories told to her by her “grandpa, Lowen Wood” on the harsh conditions slaves and their owners had to endure in order to erect this wall with areas being up to 7ft tall. It is widely believed that these walls of dry stacked rocks were erected by the slaves of the day as a means to “fortifying” their masters homes from possible attacks from pirates who frequented the area in that time.
Unfortunately large sections of the wall have been removed in the name of ‘progress’ however we are currently cutting trails to the remaining sections of the wall surrounding our property with the hopes of restoring any fallen or removed sections in order to preserve this history. .. READ MORE
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