Provides all the necessary inputs and labour to grow sustainable climate-smart organic food while teaching farmers how to fish instead of giving them the fish.
The younger generation is the key to the future of agriculture. This initiative aims to turn the spotlight on this set with the aim of getting them more involved in agriculture.
volunteer and help us create a climate-smart and sustainable Jamaica. Your assistance is warranted and will help rebuild farming communities across the Island.
volunteer and help us create a climate-smart and sustainable Jamaica. Your assistance is warranted and will help rebuild farming communities across the Island.
Multi-Impact Partnership Program: Farm Up Jamaica connects with large corporations, worldwide, to help make Jamaica their choice, social-responsibility initiative destination. By inviting these partners to make impact-investments, farmers receive assistance in the cultivation of raw materials which are later purchased back by these corporations. This program literally creates multiple impacts: 1. Increased exports, reduced imports […]
Diaspora Naval String Program: Farm Up Jamaica partners with Diaspora across the globe to cultivate their inactive lands. Targeted crops are farmed which help reduce importation, measurably. This program: 1. Increases the Jamaican GDP 2. Reduces the importation of food into Jamaica 3. Increases the export of organic, niche produce 4. Creates numerous green jobs […]
Young Soldiers for Food Security Program: Through our ‘Young Soldiers for Food Security’ program, Farm Up Jamaica Ltd. has been giving students, from several agriculture schools, the opportunity to gain practical farming experience by working on our Organic farm- every weekend. We have been providing them with transportation, room and board, and a stipend to […]
Farmer Assistance Program: We assist distressed farmers in the sustainable cultivation of vacant and under-farmed lands. We accomplish this through a diaspora-funded farmer assistance fund that provides support to registered Jamaican farmers. We are advancing through Organic Farming and a “teaching them how to fish” approach that will give farmers access to the necessary markets, […]
We have developed Jamaica’s first organic, non-GMO scotch bonnet pepper seed bank in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This farm produces the indigenous “cup and saucer” scotch bonnet pepper, which is the pepper of choice locally and internationally amongst Jamaicans. Seed banks will play an important role in accessing organic seeds to be planted on […]
Over 90% of the onions consumed locally in Jamaica are imported from other countries. Onions represent a staple food in every Jamaican home and in almost every Jamaican dish. We’ve therefore chosen organic onions as our first project. We must grow organic onions locally on a large scale to begin to close the gap on […]
