Reports of positive results coming out of the “Grow Your Own Food” project at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.
The North Central Regional Health Authority says this project has yielded increased exercise, improved diet, time in nature, social connection, and a reduction in stress and anxiety amongst staff members.
Project change agent, Sita Maharaj, Administrative Assistant, Veterinary Hospital stated, “This project commenced in 2021 with a few plantain suckers and branched into approximately one hundred (100) plantain trees; and other fruits such as cherries, rambutan, tangelo, carambola, mangoes, guava and soursop. Other trees planted were avocados, coconut, breadfruit, limes, lemons and even dasheen leaves.”