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The Bee Crisis: How the Decline of Honey Bees Threatens Our Food Chain – And How BaKaBean & Jamaica Offers a Solution The Alarming Decline of Honey Bees Honey bees are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the rise of Ai, robots algorithm  and EMF radiation, pesticide overuse, habitat destruction, and climate […]

The Real Estate theme you notice when traveling to Jamaica is unfinished homes and buildings. Money From overseas does not come all at once. When the funds are available bad contractors and planning obstruct progress. Not having the money has given a wealth of time to realize the greatest plan is to finish one room […]

Exposing the Spin over the sun for generating electricity Exploring both Hydro and magnetic turbine options for self-generating electricity and why solar panels are not as advertised. Generating electricity is top on the list for the non-experienced or those coming from city life. If you are not running power tools, computers, lights, a fridge, heaters […]

NO HOUSE? NO PROBLEM.How We’re Starting from a Tent and Ending with a Home For most, building a home is what douses the flame of homestead dreams. Having to go into great debt to collect a couple eggs every day is a defeated purpose. Watching Alone and other survivor programming – including endless videos of people making […]

Canvas and Concrete combine to build $1000 cottage. When you live in a tropical climate you can spend more sweet and imagination and less money to create a sound space.

This is another genesis idea that was built for about $3000 usd. Perfect style for a tropical starter home. Utilizing canvas, chain-link fence pipe tubes, rebar and cement  a brilliant place to enjoy tropical life is erected.

Sand bags are no longer primarily a less expensive way to build off grid. If you are building a sandbag dome or building its for personal reasons as the cost of filling a sandbag is the same or more than a cement block. $150 per bag a load of fill puts the cost to about […]

Part 2 in this video you can see the bamboo being used to reenforce the shell structure and finishing off the exterior interior and floor wth cement mix.

Getting land to live off grid has not been the most expensive part of home ownership for some time now building materials have been keeping people sleeping on their dreams. Hurricanes and disasters creating worldwide resets has Jamaicans emptying hardware stores of cement and other essential materials. The NHT recently gave the green light to […]

Baombakatara Custom WordPress Theme – Complete Summary & Build Documentation This document summarises the entire development of the Baombakatara custom WordPress theme. Use it to understand the architecture, replicate the setup, or continue integrating additional features (points system, surveys, etc.). The theme is built from scratch, with no third‑party page builders or premium themes – only custom […]