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Business World |
March 2015
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“It was completely under bush in those days,”
Lucy recalls. “The only way in was by canoe,
horse or on foot.”
Mick and Lucy immediately fell in love with
the property. They returned with machetes
and basic supplies, and before long the land
was producing homegrown vegetables – fol-
lowed by milk, yoghurt, cheese and eggs.
The young pioneer farmers were soon part of
the landscape, becoming familiar fixtures on
market day in San Ignacio, the closest town,
reached by canoeing down river or by horse-
back though a rudimentary dirt tract.
In those days, tourism in the interior of Be-
lize was almost non-existent. Most travellers
were Europeans, curious about this unique
English-speaking former Crown colony or
on their way to other Central American des-
tinations. Some, hearing about a hospitable