Month: October 2016
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Emerald Estate Organic Farm’s Resident ‘Green Thumb’ Pawan Srivastava
Pawan Srivastava is Taking Anse Chastanet Resort’s Organic Farm Production to Delicious New Heights Saint Lucia resorts Anse Chastanet and Jade Mountain have been recognized over the years for their efforts to locally grow its own organic produce.It all began when resort owners, Nick and Karolin Troubetzkoy, always tirelessly seeking to improve the total holiday…
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Emerald Estate
Organic produce for our kitchens and artisanal chocolate making from the bean to the barHistory of our organic farm, Emerald Estate. Whilst there are no historic documents, it is thought that Emerald Estate was established over 200 years ago, growing various food crops but that these initial efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. Located in the Soufriere hills, Emerald Estate originally did not have…
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Jade Mountain Gets Gold For Going Green
WASHINGTON DC (October 15, 2016) – The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced that St. Lucia’s Jade Mountain resort has become the first hotel in the Caribbean to receive the coveted LEED GOLD certification status.”Achieving LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold, as Jade Mountain has done, demonstrates an exceptional level of leadership…
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Saint Lucia would make great Minnesota winter getaway
The scent of embers from fall bonfires soon will be replaced by the crisp smell of a winter morning. Like most of you, I find that crispness enjoyable for just so long, until I start anticipating the smell of lilacs and the site of the first tulip peaking out from the grass as if to…