PEACE CORPS Spotlighted At Folklife Festival Wash. DC

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Zed on Saturday, July 16, 2011 - 03:31 pm: Edit Post

Eric...this Post is for you:

www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/peace-corps-culture-goes-on-display-at-th e-smithsonian-folklife-festival/2011/06/19/AG4sXHjH_story.html

JAMAICA had its own little "camp" within the Peace Corp exhibit area with an emphasis on Organic Agriculture in the displays and on the ground.
Of particular interest, and perhaps somewhat exotic for international visitors, was the charting of Rastafarianism & Organic Agriculture:
• A fundamental tenet of Rastafarianism is the adoption of a healthy lifestyle...referring to their nutrition as ital derived from the English word vital.
• Central to the diet is that food should be natural, or pure from the earth (their food grown without chemical fertilizers or fertilizers to adhere to the doctrine).


Inter-linkages between the Peace Corps, the Jamaica Organic Agriculture Movement and the Bluefields Organic Farmers Group were exhibited along with such "talking points" as:
• Companion Planting
• Crop Rotation
• Composting (Organic waste-Natural)
• Organic Pesticides


Other displays highlighted Reggae music, and Traditional Woodcarving.
Brian Wedderburn was on location representing as a woodcarver and a farmer with the Bluefields project.