Surprisingly, it all came about through pain. Since the age of nine, Paul “The Surfer” Bourne has been a fierce competitor, representing Barbados in yachting, surfing and rally driving. He’s done so well that he’s a household name in Barbados. But chronic back pain became his main rival. Nothing he tried could stop it. The answer presented itself about five years ago, when he heard holistic health guru, Paul Chek, lecture at a health and fitness conference in Toronto. Healthy eating habits, lifestyle management, breathing and exercise are all part of his programme. He promised that it would cure the pain. Chek’s system worked for Paul. He took his healing process to heart, so much that he changed from food retailing to food production. Nutrition was the impetus. You can balance your diet all you want, but how can it be healthy if food production itself relies on practices whose effects are harmful to plants, animals, the earth and to ourselves? It’s not simply that commercial pesticides, fungicides and herbicides can be toxic; in conventional farming, the soil itself loses nutrients, and that loss renders our food less nourishing to us.
A ramble leads to a flat strip running along the cliff edge. Here in the shade, with the wind whistling in the casuarina trees, people can picnic at tables, or just gaze out to sea Aerial Photo: Caribbean Aerial Photography
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