Grandad Jak Coconut Group

18/12/2023

Call 625-8834 to place your orders.

14/12/2023

https://venezuelanalysis.com/columns/unusual-and-extraordinary-venezuelan-sovereignty-and-the-essequibo-referendum/

The national vote held on December 3 upheld sovereignty in two ways: exercising control over the territory and emphasizing the weight of the popular vote.

01/12/2022

Bless Good morning to everyone!!!
I’m here to share a little secret 🤫… our pure virgin coconut oil is additives and perfume free, also there is no need to worry about having that coconut oil scent… it glows that skin, grow that hair, and support the immune system
It’s available at our store locators
Survival supermarket
Essential care pharmacy
Bounty supermarket
Desmond’s pharmacy
Cross cutters supermarket

17/11/2022

Good morning folks, it’s been a while since we’ve last updated. I’m happy to say that our page will be active from now on and we will be keeping you up to date with Grandjak coconut oil

19/09/2021

19/09/2021

Hailing up the youth in Dartmouth Village, Essequibo. Your spirit went into the making of one of the best Virgin Coconut Oils in Guyana, and possibly the entire Caribbean.

06/10/2020

12/06/2019

We're right here for you.

09/06/2019

The Grandad Jak Coconut Group is a subgroup of the Dartmouth Community Movement (DCM), a community organization created to achieve village revitalization. It aims to contribute vitally to the Guyanese village economy through the revitalizing of the coconut industry. The Group originated in April of 2015 and arose from the combined initiative of two women of very different backgrounds—a university lecturer from Georgetown, the capital city, and a craftswoman originally from the Pomeroon River, Essequibo. The project has contributed to a re-emergence of resilience and self-reliance. Its expansion to include two more families in less than four months speaks volumes for its economic and cultural potential. Within the eight months since its inception, the group has brought a significant, almost miraculous change to the expectations of the village. Traditional technologies and knowledge attending to the production have emerged to put on the local market on a small scale, a product that is once again being valued for its versatility and health value. Since the first 1 ½ gallon produced in April of 2014 by the two women and the later inclusion of two more women, the desires to hold families together, to engage the youth meaningfully in the revitalization of their village and to develop family farms have become tangible realities to be aimed for over inertia and despair. Between November and December of 2015, the combined group of three families produced approximately 98 gallons of virgin coconut oil.
Cultural revivals that go beyond ceremony and rhetoric must be deeply rooted in economic independence and relevant education. In a sister country, Belize, revolutionary change is taking place without the gun: See
http://www.stabroeknews.com/2015/features/11/09/food-security-and-maya-land-rights-crafting-paths-of-development-with-identity/
and
http://www.stabroeknews.com/category/features/in-the-diaspora/
The Grandad Jak Coconut Group offers the evidence on the ground of the great potential for village revitalization that is home-grown and not imported.

By Filiberto Penados and Mark Chatarpal According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), food security is generally defined as occurring when everyone has constant access to healthy and sa…

09/06/2019

About The Grandad Jak Virgin Coconut Oil Group
The group arose by an effort of Grandad Jak's daughter while she was residing in Dartmouth Village during her Sabbatical Leave from the University of Guyana during the 2014—15 academic year. A visitor to her home in Dartmouth remarked on the vast quantities of coconuts being wasted in the adjacent unoccupied lot, and, encouraged by one of the village youths, Theodore Cornette (now part of his Grandmother’s—Mrs Chester— family team), one hundred and fifty coconuts were transformed into one gallon and a half of virgin coconut oil in two days on the premises under the guidance of a skilled craftsman of Dartmouth, Mr Glensford Steven and Mrs Patricia Lynch, one of Ms Wilkinson’s visitors from the Guyanese Diaspora in New York. The villagers knew of the virgin oil by the local Guyanese name, pres ail. And it was the tradition to always keep a small amount of the homemade oil for medicinal or cosmetic purposes at home. But they seemed unaware of the lucrative price it fetched on the world market and the amazing health benefits attached to it.
The first batch of oil was delightedly and proudly given away to friends and relatives. The second batch of oil was made by Ms. Violet Smith on her own premises during one of Ms Wilkinson’s trips back to the capital.

The rest is history.

09/06/2019

The extraction of virgin coconut oil by fermentation is a labour intensive process involving two essential stages. In stage one the coconut milk is prepared for fermentation: a) selection of extra dry coconuts; b) de-husking of the nuts, c) extracting the meat; d) grating the meat, and e) washing the meat to convert to coconut milk. In stage two, the resulting liquid mixture is left to ferment for 24 hours and then the virgin oil is carefully extracted by ladling from the top. This is then cured in the sun for at least four days before bottling.

29/05/2019

Each coconut can contain about 200 to 1000 ml of water. That is why you should drink coconut water every day. They are grown in the tropics.

26/05/2019

The Voice of Global Asians

26/05/2019

https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-nature-extinction-un-biodiversity-report-2019-a8901061.html?fbclid=IwAR1F0rTv7TxD4KVFCt1tS5KL1j4ZcrPmTHN_Ow9UVSp9b7IeszS_1i_vYMU

'We need to declare an ecological emergency, not just a climate emergency'

27/01/2018

http://www.ba-bamail.com/content.aspx?emailid=23336

Coconut oil is a substance you need both in your kitchen and in your medicine cabinet, as you're about to see with these 10 unexpected uses.

20/09/2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhiBATkr3OA

The old regulars or the knew upstarts

11/06/2017

By: Nicolette Aolani Kineret, via Wise Mind Healthy Body | Virgin coconut oil on it’s own is one of the most amazing products for health care and beauty regimens. I use it to deep condition my hair, moisturize my skin, bake delicious cookies, wipe make up off, apply as a lip-balm, etc. Coconut oil h...