“The plan was to showcase our farm and beautiful environment, our products, processes and people, while at the same time adding fun, education, cuisine, culture and tradition. “I had to find a way to revitalise the estate and ensure its financial viability and sustainability. “Necessity was the mother of invention,” she said. In 2002, Nyack Compton, granddaughter of Norbert and Lyris Nyack, opened the gates to the public, and Belmont became both a functioning estate and a pioneering agri-tourism business.
In 1944 it was purchased by the Nyacks, an entrepreneurial Grenadian family of Indian descent who lived in Hermitage. A century later, when Grenada was ceded to Britain, the estate successively became the property of two British families, the Aitchesons and the Houstons, who grew sugar, cotton, cocoa, nutmeg and bananas. Its history can be traced to the late 1600s when French settlers grew coffee here. She tells me that not only is the goat’s cheese delicious, but it is also completely natural and made on the estate, from the milk of a herd of thoroughbreds that roam a large paddock on the hillside above the ambrosial restaurant that we are sharing with a busload of tourists.īetween the pastoral villages of Hermitage and Tivoli, the 400-acre Belmont Estate lies among the lush hills of Grenada’s scenic northeastern parish of St Patrick. I understand and agree with the above statement.Shadel Nyack Compton, managing director of Belmont Estate, is buzzing with enthusiasm.22:04, shall not disclose any personal information collected from any individual unless their consent has been obtained except in accordance with Sections 42, 43, 44 and 45 of the said Act. The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service in accordance with the Data Protection Act, Chap.
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