Fitzroy Valentine’s inventive and profitable hydroponics experiment

Fitzroy Valentine tending his hydroponically grown celery at his Friendship farm.

Fitzroy Valentine is one of the more than 60 members of the Mar Friends Cooperative Society who have been cultivating crops on land bordering Cuffy Dam at Friendship, East Coast Demerara for more than 30 years.

Valentine, a Buxtonian and an experienced farmer, has been influenced by the Partners of the Americas’ Farmer to Farmer programme