Topic: Beacon Farms
Beacon Farms Golf Tournament returns for second year
The Beacon Farms Golf Tournament returned for its second year bringing together more than 100 golfers and community members.
Spreading love at Beacon Farms
Buying produce helps people on the road to recovery.
Beyond imports: Growing food security in Cayman
The story of the farmers, fishers, agri-producers, restaurants and hotels building Cayman's food security.
Farm to fairway: Beacon Farms to hold golf tournament fundraiser
The Beacon Farms team is swapping tractors for golf carts as they host their first annual Golf Invitational fundraiser at the North Sound Golf...
Crushing it: Beacon Farms machinery creates arable land for local farmers
Beacon Farms, the charitable agricultural outfit that gives drug and alcohol addicts a second chance at life, now is giving local farms a second chance also, by converting rocky land into fertile fields.
Beacon Farms filmmaker wins best director award
A documentary about North Side's Beacon Farms has garnered five accolades, including a best director prize for filmmaker Candy Whicker.
Beacon Farms composting supermarket waste
Food waste and discarded cardboard boxes and pallets from Foster's supermarkets, that would otherwise end up in the George Town landfill, are being ferried to Beacon Farms in North Side where they are being composted.
‘Beacon Farms’ documentary wins London International Film Festival award
Local documentary 'Beacon Farms' has won the Science and Education award at the London International Film Festival.
Beacon Farms movie wins silver at Hollywood film festival
Cayman's home-grown documentary 'Beacon Farms', which features the struggles and successes of a non-profit farm run by recovering addicts in North Side, has won a silver award at the 2023 Hollywood Independent Filmmaker Awards and Festival.
Beacon Farms cinema run extended
The Beacon Farms documentary that is giving audiences an insight into the work done at the unique farm in North Side, which offers a second chance at life and sobriety to addicts, is on an extended run at the Camana Bay cinema.
Film review: Beacon Farms, a dream built on rock
Beacon Farms, a documentary that is showing at Camana Bay Cinema this week, gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into the triumphs and challenges of the North Side farm that is staffed by recovering addicts who transform not only the farm, but their own lives.
Seed of idea leads to Beacon Farms movie
A documentary film on Beacon Farms in North Side, which offers a second chance at employment and life to recovering addicts, will be released next month.
Haugh donates farmland to local charity
Philanthropist Granger Haugh has donated 34 acres of land to the charitable foundation that runs Beacon Farms, which offers second chances to the recovering addicts who staff the North Side farm.
Providing a continuum of care: The Bridge Foundation and Beacon Farm
Every month is recovery month at The Bridge Foundation and Beacon Farms, sister organisations offering a continuum of care to Caymanians recovering from alcohol and drug abuse.
New beet on the block
North Side's Beacon Farms may be best known for its tobacco crops, but now it's introducing a new ingredient for the chefs of Grand Cayman – the mangelwurzel beet.
First cigars with Cayman tobacco produced
Cigar aficionados have been getting their first taste of cigars containing tobacco grown at a farm in North Side and hand-rolled in Bodden Town.
Fire crews combat Beacon Farms blaze
Firefighters tackled a large blaze overnight at Beacon Farms, off Frank Sound Road in North Side.
The fire at the farm's composting heap destroyed a...
A beacon of modern agriculture
A tour of Beacon Farms, an innovative project is helping recovering addicts and introducing new farming ideas to Cayman.
Cayman begins exporting cigars to US
The Cayman Cigar Company, a Grand Cayman-based non-profit, has begun exporting its cigars to the United States.
Farm plants seeds of hope
Beacon Farms is pushing ahead with plans to produce coconut oil, grow tobacco and experiment with other marketable products to help fund its work with recovering addicts.
EDITORIAL – Recognizing and hopefully encouraging all at Beacon Farms
Beacon Farms has tapped into a well of knowledge in making the focus of its business the growth of both seeds and planters.
A beacon of hope for recovering addicts
The 34-acre property in Frank Sound is growing into a fully functioning agricultural operation that aims eventually to produce everything from livestock feed and coconut oil to Cayman’s first homegrown, premium cigar. But its real business is recovery.
Homegrown smokes, courtesy of Beacon Farms
“There are no bad cigars … only better ones.” There are many clichéd adjectives to describe the flavor of a fine cigar. Such worn out jargon as “full-bodied,” “mild,” “tart” or “woody” is often bandied about in smoking lounges. I keep it simple with, “Wow, this is nice.”
