After finding unexpected success with growing grapes locally, farmer Devon Gilead has his sights set on one day opening the country’s first vineyard—a dream that he is slowly making a reality.
Gilead, 41, of Glasgow New Housing Scheme, East Bank Berbice, is known throughout the ancient county as the ‘Grape Boss’ due to his success with growing the fruit locally in the face of much doubt.
Gilead, a bee keeper and slasher operator who was born in the East Bank of Berbice, grew up with a dream of growing grapes in Guyana despite the fact that he was always told that the fruit had to be grown in cold weather.
