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Pineapple passion!

Published:Monday | July 12, 2010 | 12:00 AM
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Rosemarie Miller shows off some produce from her pineapple farm in Ginger Hill.
Rosemarie Miller (second left) works with Fitzroy Anderson (left), Elford Arnold (second right) and Iona Whittaker. Miller has been a pineapple farmer on her four-acre property for more than 12 years.
Alva Sanderson, a pineapple farmer in Ginger Hill, St Elizabeth, has been in business for the past 25 years.
Elford Arnold doubles up, hauling a banana bunch as he heads out of his pineapple farm in Ginger Hill, St Elizabeth. - Photos by Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer
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WHEN YOU think of Ginger Hill in St Elizabeth, the fragrance of the popular rhizome by which it gets its name immediately wafts into your nostrils.

But this community situated in the hills of northwest St Elizabeth is the biggest pineapple farm in the country, with almost everyone in the area involved in one way or another.

Rosemarie Miller, who plants a four-acre plot, says she got involved in farming more than 12 years ago after leaving school.

Miller told The Gleaner that her biggest market is the Coronation Market in Kingston, where she sells to vendors at $15 per pound. In downtown Kingston, vendors are having a field day as pineapples are in abundance, priced between $30 and $40 per pound.