The gardens and wildlife

Crescent Moon Cabins is an eco-sensitive establishment in that we effectively "recycled" the ruins of an original hotel, building on existing foundations, using local hand-harvested materials within previously landscaped areas. We are fortunate to be situated on Rivier La Croix that provides all of our utility water via a ram pump. Our drinking water comes from a natural mountain spring. Our community is very involved in Crescent Moon by offering trail guiding, educational farm tours, supplying additional produce, and providing transportation. We have been very fortunate to have both visitors and neighbors with ecologically conscious lifestyles. It is a pleasure for us to facilitate this exchange.

Feel free to wander about. Garden paths meander throughout the property with self-guiding labels of ornamental flowers, fruit trees, culinary herbs, and medicinal plants.

The garden at Crescent Moon is an ever growing collection of tropical species intermingled with North American perennials. The numerous varieties of heliconia, bougainvillea, and crotons are well represented with accents of complimentary exotics. The flowers and foliage show year round!

Have a look in the greenhouse to see what is growing. From there you can pass through the passion fruit orchard and visit our lady chickens and goats. They love the attention and are sure to put on a show. For the bold there is still more as a steep forest track winds its way to a viewpoint of the majestic Morne Trois Piton

Its all about water
The utility  water at Crescent Moon comes directly  from the river by a Ram Pump which we built using locally obtainable materials. The unit consist of only two moving parts and runs entirely on the energy derived  from the  river. The Ram is able to hydraulically  pump water vertically over 200 ft up the mountain where it is stored in cisterns and gravity feed to areas where needed. This system delivers  us over 1000 gallons of water a day and works 7 days a week 24 hours a day. We also make use of our abundant rainfall  by capturing rainwater and utilizing it in our pools and ponds. The drinking water at Crescent Moon is delivered fresh each day from our numerous fresh water springs 

Nothing goes to waste
We use several compost methods at Crescent Moon to maintain a rich organic soil for our flowers , herbs, and vegetables. 
The three bin system gives us a good quantity  but takes a bit more time . We also  use rotating barrels that work extremely fast but have limited capacity. 
Free stand composting is utilized  about the property and gives us very large quantities but takes more time.
We use a shredding machine to help  break down fallen  limbs, coco pods and leaves to a very small size which speeds up the composting process.
Our chickens and dairy goats  are quite good composters themselves.  The pen manure is mixed with compost  and the soil is adjusted accordingly for the optimum  PH balance necessary.