DaveM
SBH Insider
Yesterday Vic and I visited La Ferme des Iles above Gouverneur Beach. What a wonderful creation we discovered!! Funded substantially by the Collective and operated as a non profit educational farm and activity center, this property is well worth a stop (and free btw.) Its purpose was originally an equestrian center and shelter. Then after Irma it seems to have been much more favored as a public project and after eight years it reopened last October.
We saw charming ponies, one black horse who pre dated Irma, goats, rabbits, a macaw cage, an aviary, a children’s playground, a picnic area and four different fantastic high viewing overlooks. The playground is party remarkable — it’s a work of sculptural art that is imaginatively designed as a playground. The rides and apparatus are all shaped as animals native to the island with the centerpiece as a giant iguana sliding board.
Our luck kept running when we encountered property leader Dimitri Ledee. As an employee of the Collective, and a thoughtful, community minded soul, we were captivated by his comments on this project but also many other of the current island wide topics. Hospital, elections, elderly care, metropoles, housing, challenges of many natives, island evolution and so on. . .
About half way down the road to the beach just after the second of two giant construction sites, veer a bit to the left onto a road you might think is private — its not, and just wind up the hill and look for a small equestrian sign.
We saw charming ponies, one black horse who pre dated Irma, goats, rabbits, a macaw cage, an aviary, a children’s playground, a picnic area and four different fantastic high viewing overlooks. The playground is party remarkable — it’s a work of sculptural art that is imaginatively designed as a playground. The rides and apparatus are all shaped as animals native to the island with the centerpiece as a giant iguana sliding board.
Our luck kept running when we encountered property leader Dimitri Ledee. As an employee of the Collective, and a thoughtful, community minded soul, we were captivated by his comments on this project but also many other of the current island wide topics. Hospital, elections, elderly care, metropoles, housing, challenges of many natives, island evolution and so on. . .
About half way down the road to the beach just after the second of two giant construction sites, veer a bit to the left onto a road you might think is private — its not, and just wind up the hill and look for a small equestrian sign.
