Our Story

We have been given a unique opportunity to manifest our vision of producing just and sustainable food on a total of 370 lush acres, land that was part of the original estate of National hero, George William Gordon. A giant, stately Guango tree (Samanea saman), probabluy a sapling when George William Gordon owned the property, stands as a silent sentinel. Studies in Indonesia suggest that a tree of this size sequesters approximately 60 tons of carbon annually.

Our property is 370 acres, and the main reason that it was gifted to GWG Conservancy Limited back in 2018, was to ensure that, as far as possible, the forest area would be preserved. The vision of this project is to create an economically viable model for land restoration and conservation, and the establishment of productive agroecological systems, which will serve as a research and demonstration model for regenerative organic agriculture that can be replicated in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean, and tropical regions around the world.

GWG Conservancy Limited is the organizational steward for this land of extraordinary beauty and biological diversity. GWG holds another parcel of land adjacent to the conservation property, which is the site of the region’s first organic research station and the Caribbean’s premiere hub for cross-disciplinary collaboration, bringing together researchers, farmers, policymakers and global citizens to reclaim our food systems.