Passionate farmer cultivates success with diverse products | News [Video]

For 44-year-old Elizabeth Mills, farming is not just a source of income, but a passion that has transformed her into a budding entrepreneur with her own small but steadily growing manufacturing business.

Mills has a small farm in Clarendon where she grows crops such as mangoes, oranges, cashews, cucumbers and sweet peppers. She also raises pigs, goats, layer chickens and ducks.

And that is not all. This phenomenal woman makes products such as castor oil, cocoa butter, coconut oil, turmeric powder, charcoal powder and soaps from the plants she grows.

“I plant my own stuff and then I make my own products. I don’t guh to the store like some people and buy the bulk, and then bottle it and put on a label. No, I do everything from scratch, so I’ll go and get the chocolate from the tree and make raw cocoa butter from it,” Mills said.

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