Bouffant Caps and Chocolate Milk
The students arrived back from Spring Break for the second part of Sustainable Community Development taught by prof. Gail Heffner (pictured here second from the left). This was a great week spent in-the-field exploring issues of community development with a particular focus on food security and agriculture.
Early in the week we visited the progressive Mennonite community of Spanish Lookout, about 45 minutes away from campus. Spanish Lookout is one of the wealthier communities in Belize and has some of the only industrialized agricultural operations in the country. We visited two of these companies that are relatively small-scale compared to North American processors: Western Dairies, which supplies Belize with the majority of its milk, cheese, ice cream, and yogurt as well as Quality Poultry Products, which is the major supplier of chicken.
Pictured here is the group at Western Dairies, looking fabulous in bouffant caps and growing thirsty as we watched bottles of chocolate milk speed by on a conveyor belt.
Early in the week we visited the progressive Mennonite community of Spanish Lookout, about 45 minutes away from campus. Spanish Lookout is one of the wealthier communities in Belize and has some of the only industrialized agricultural operations in the country. We visited two of these companies that are relatively small-scale compared to North American processors: Western Dairies, which supplies Belize with the majority of its milk, cheese, ice cream, and yogurt as well as Quality Poultry Products, which is the major supplier of chicken.
Pictured here is the group at Western Dairies, looking fabulous in bouffant caps and growing thirsty as we watched bottles of chocolate milk speed by on a conveyor belt.
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