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Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch issued an apology to a farming leader yesterday as he conceded farming leases had been neglected. The Minister of Public Works also told the House of Assembly all leases for arable lands would now be extended to 21 year...

Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch said he would investigate “all sorts of questions” arising from the Westover Farm saga. The public works minister confirmed yesterday that the notice to quit the Sandys farm had been cancelled after he talked with tenan...

Bermuda’s biggest dairy farm is to install specialist equipment to try to reduce the smell of manure after repeated complaints from neighbours. Green Land Dairy Farm, on Store Hill in Smith’s, has worked with the Department of Health to solve the pro...

A farm that raised a stink among its neighbours has started to clean up its act. However, some residents living near Green Land Dairy Farm in Smith’s insisted that the work was too little, too late. One, from Store Hill, said that most neighbours bel...

The island’s largest dairy herd got its first taste of a happier and healthier life yesterday as a state-of-the-art shelter officially opened. The huge shed, which is fitted with fans, misting equipment and spongy flooring, will help reduce heat stre...

About four years ago, Julie Grayston-Smith lost her sense of taste. She had breast cancer, and the chemotherapy and radiation treatments left their mark. As she cooked for a living, it made her job very difficult. “You get this metallic taste in your...

Hurricane Nicole left a trail of widespread and significant devastation to the island’s agricultural sector. The Category 3 hurricane ripped up newly planted seeds and damaged fruit and vegetable crops that were due to be harvested. Although farmers ...

Bermuda Farmers’ Market will take place at the Botanical Gardens every Saturday morning, the Department of Parks has announced. Farmers, fishermen, gardeners and artisans will be at the JJ Outerbridge Building to sell produce, farm-related items, pla...

Farmers and dairy owners have reacted with cautious optimism to a pledge by the Bermuda Government to revitalise the Island’s agricultural sector. In the Throne Speech, the Governor, George Fergusson, announced that a Crop Sector Strategy would be co...

The Island’s historic properties escaped largely unscathed despite the 100 miles per hour winds and torrential rain that lashed us as Hurricane Joaquin passed to the west. Jennifer Gray, executive director of the Bermuda National Trust, said the old ...

Bermudians are leading an initiative to build a farm in Haiti that will serve children at an orphanage and school. Project manager John Singleton is being supported by the technical expertise of farmer Tom Wadson; they will join forces with Bermudian...

It is almost a year since Valter Medeiros and his wife, Lidia, took on the old Outerlea Farm and its herd after the Island’s biggest milk producer fell into liquidation. They changed its name to Green Land Dairy, embarked on a series of upgrades to t...