She can provide a unique all inclusive nature holiday with herbal teas and meals prepared from her own organic garden. Amenities include rainwater from drums and outhouses. Campsites are also available. Hiking and river swimming can be arranged. This valley, stretching back towards the mountains, is one of the most fertile areas in Jamaica.
Main crops are coffee and cocoa.
A colourful former proprietor, William Bancroft Espeut, established the first railway here in 1868 to transport his cane from field to factory. In an attempt to control rats in the canefields, he introduced the mongoose - a small carnivore also partial to eggs. Five mongooses imported from India thrived and multiplied. In the wild, the mongoose exterminated indigenous snakes, iguanas and conies - all of them now endangered species in the island. The mongoose also preys on birds and domestic poultry and is now regarded as a pest - illustrating the danger of upsetting the ecological balance with introduced species.