Cotton Isn’t Only White, The Ancestral Brazilian Seeds That Grow Pink, Green And Brown With No Dye

Cotton isn’t only white. Ancestral Brazilian cotton seeds grow fibre in pink, green and brown straight from the plant, with no dye at all, and a sustainable swimwear brand is building it into its beachwear. On my visit to Sol Luna Atelier, where Vivi Rufino and David run Freedom Ecowear together as a couple, Vivi pulled out the naturally coloured ancestral cotton she is obsessed with, grown regeneratively alongside food crops by guardians of the seeds in Brazil.

Why Angie Paints Men as Fried Eggs

The female gaze in art, explained by a Dominican painter who paints men as fried eggs. It goes deeper than a joke. I stood in her kitchen while she worked and asked the black Dominican artist about the female gaze vs the male gaze, women painting men, reverse objectification and Sylvia Sleigh, and here she is, in her own words.

The Antiguan Backyard Garden Passed Down Four Generations

Lorylin keeps an Antiguan backyard herb garden the way her grandmother and mother did, planted every bed at Lamblion herself, shows her plants at the island garden show, and is already passing it down to her daughter. A living piece of Caribbean food heritage you can walk on a stay, mostly in her own words.

Is the Best Food in Negril Grown Local, Not Imported and Frozen?

The best food in Negril is not flown in, it is grown on a hill an hour inland and cooked the same week. Le Vendome at Charela Inn is a French Jamaican farm to table restaurant on Seven Mile Beach run by a farmer who refuses to serve what he would not eat himself, with the best plant based breakfast I found on the strip.