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FOURSQUARE
RUM
DISTILLERY
Pay a visit to one of the
few remaining familyowned
rum distilleries
in the Caribbean
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Educational Gardens
How Slow Food Barbados is working to inform children via agriculture
Slow Food Barbados’s Educational
Gardens programme aims to
reconnect Caribbean youth with
the journey their food takes from
farm to plate. Since 2015, gardens
have been installed in 15 schools
and institutions around the island.
Once the gardens are established,
volunteers offer ongoing support
through workshops. Julie McNeel,
director of the programme, notes:
“We’re empowering youth to
be informed eaters, and to gain
sustainable agricultural knowledge
and skills.” Some of the schools’
canteens use the gardens’ produce
in their meals; other schools have
set up farmers’ markets to sell
their harvest.
Top & above: Kids love getting involved with the gardens at their schools – as well as
learning important lessons about where their food comes from, and how to develop
sustainable agricultural knowledge and skills
WWW.SLOWFOODBARBADOS.ORG
Barbados’s Foursquare rum has
history. It’s been wholly owned
by the Seale family for the past
25 years, and is produced on an
estate dating back over 250 years;
the old ‘still house’, designated
a property of Historical and
Architectural Interest by the
Barbados National Trust, is one
of the island’s oldest buildings.
The distillery exports
RL Seale’s 10 Year Old, the
Foursquare exceptional cask
series, the Doorly’s range of fine
rums and the Real McCoy Rum.
The distillery also produces John
D Taylor’s Velvet Falernum, a
uniquely Barbadian rumbased
liqueur.
Some of the rums are still
distilled in the traditional
copper pot. “The pot still gives
the rum greater complexity and
depth of flavour, and is truly an
artisanal small batch process,”
says owner Richard Seale.
“Other rums are distilled in the
more modern twin column,
which still allows the final blend
to have a superior balance,
both in aroma and on the
palate. Innovation means that
distillation is performed under
vacuum and thus at a lower
temperature, producing a better
quality spirit.”
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