Jamaica Observer Article - UWI accounting graduate reaps sweet benefits from the soil

Dushaine Carty, who is also an accountant at a credit union in Kingston, grew up on the rich soil in Wakefield near Linstead. The very plot on which he stood is one that his own father tilled to put him and his six siblings through school. But, even as a promising student at the St Jago High School, Carty always knew that he would return to invest in the earth that fed and educated him.

UNIVERSITY graduate Dushaine Carty, 24, wiped the sweat from his brow as he trudged through his field of sweet potatoes near Linstead St Catherine, yesterday. He walked through a lush row of produce, pausing periodically to tug at the green plants, until he found what he was looking for. He grinned as he bent and pulled up a plump tuber with his bare hands, rubbing the dirt away to reveal a pinkish hue. It was time to reap.

“It's one of the best feelings — reaping what you planted,” he told the Jamaica Observer yesterday, as he continued to walk through the plot. “It's like a mother giving birth to a child. It's something that you have a lot of joy in.”

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