I recently visited Egypt to meet melon growers. Egypt produces excellent melon for us in the important transition period of May and June when southern hemisphere crop is winding down and Mediterranean crop is starting up. Blue Skies Egypt has helped pioneer orange melon production for our fresh cut operation. […]
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Watermelon and Mango Refresher
Try this tasty refreshing blend of fresh watermelon, mango and soda water. Ingredients: 2 cups soda water 2 cups fresh watermelon chunks (frozen) 2 cups fresh mango (Frozen) Method: Place frozen watermelon into blender and process to break down the ice chunks until snow-like texture. Fill 1/3 of a serving […]
Peach and Mango Cobbler
Ingredients: 175g self-raising flour 100g unsalted softened butter 25g porridge oats 50g soft brown sugar ½ tsp ground cinnamon or nutmeg 4 tbsp plain yoghurt For fruit: Juice of a small orange 2 tbsp soft brown sugar 150 g fresh mango chunks + 150g tinned peaches Method: Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Chop the fruit into […]
Introducing Cannan Farms
Cannan is a Coconut Farm situated in the Central Region of Ghana and has been supplying coconut to Blue Skies for over ten years. There are 19 coconut farmers at Cannan who all live at Vanderpuye village which is home to around 187 people, and is located within the farm. […]
Meet Billy Gameti
Billy Gameti is a pineapple farmer with the Blue Skies farmer group. He started farming in 1995 while in his early twenties. At that time he had just one acre of pineapple but he was soon able to expand this to five acres after Blue Skies started their operations in […]
Meet Joseph Kwesi Odzeyem
Joseph Kwesi Odzeyem is one of our most reliable and consistent Mango growers in the Blue Skies farmer group. He started commercial farming in 1972 with sugarcane and in 1984 he switched to food crop farming. Through the intervention of the Ministry of Agriculture he got involved in Seed Maize […]
Case Study: 2016 School Farm of the Year
The School Farm of the Year competition has been introduced to encourage more young people to consider farming as an interesting and viable career. In 2016 around 90 schools applied to take part in the competition with a total of 60 selected to participate. All kinds of vegetable crops were […]
Obodan Junior High School
Obodan is a community of around 1,500 people in the Akuapem South Municipality of the Eastern region of Ghana. It is a farming community and home to several pineapple suppliers to Blue Skies. The Junior High school is used by a number of neighbouring villages and has a population of […]
Water supply for Nsawam Fire Station
The Nsawam Fire station has approximately 70 personnel. It is the District Fire Station in charge of over 23 communities, across three regions. The station is currently a temporary wooden facility, built over 20 years ago. Access to water is a major challenge and they sometimes have to travel for […]
Kojokrom 12 seater KVIP
Approx 1,800 inhabitants (mainly farmers of pineapple, maize, plantain and legumes). The KVIP, originally constructed in 1975, is old and dilapidated. As people are reluctant to use it this has created health problems, such as cholera outbreaks. The foundation has funded a toilet facility (KVIP). As well as improved health […]