BioAg Journal #1 - December 2018

The heroes like single
mothers who refuse to
let hardship hinder their
offspring’s future, the
heroes that need not
be placed on a piece
of paper previously
worthless, now used
to class our financial
freedom, the kind of
heroes young children
look to for inspiration, for
guidance, for answers.
A NEW WAVE - HAPPY
INDEPENDANCE
BARBADOS
Ripples from a new wave of determination set into
young entrepreneurs as we embark into a field of
unknowns. What can be more exciting than to build
upon models of sustainable living once thought of
as out of reach for the average Barbadian- the lower
to middle-class Bajan who by their own admission
have set this task solely upon the shoulders of
government officials that may or may not hold the
answers we truly sought? This seems to be quite the
paradox waiting to unfold itself within inefficiently
productive landscapes or more so fields and hills
beyond recall for are they really our very own, if we
as a people, a group of individuals, are unprepared
to be the stewards of our lands or be the caretakers
of our own gardens.
Let’s say that for a moment in this brief phase of
newly independent people we have not fully resolved
past afflictions to those holding the bread and butter
we deem necessary to actually make manifest the
ideals we declared evidently fundamental for the
holistic success of the whole body, not merely the
head and neck of this Bajan thoroughbred. For
it is quite evident the potential of our people is
something to behold, the talent dripping through
the containment of European schooling forced
upon African bloodlines aiming to dissolve the
only thing we held dear to us; the power to create
from what some may call nothing. A power seen
time and time again as artists and artisans make
the most of the finite materials spread very thinly
across this country like the asphalt used to cover
potholes which sink deeper than the history of
our people revealed to us by these institutions of
knowledge.
Here, my friends, we stand at a crossroads where
blame, guilt, and frustration will do nothing more
than to slow down the flow of this power held
within the hands of each individual comprising
this beautiful island. For our paradise lies not
upon sandy beaches left vacant for tourists to
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