Image Gallery

The Scotch Bonnet pepper in all of it’s glory. Image Credit: Creative Commons
A map of natural and human directed chile migrations around the world. Image Credit: Cornell Botanic Gardens
First stop in Jamaica? Scothies Jerk Shack! Day 1 and we are already in Pepper Town.
Up close and personal with my first Scotty B!
Am I in Heaven? Nope, just an average grocery store display of that liquid goodness.
There she is, the Scotch Bonnet, capsicum chinese, a cultivar of the habanero.
A field of dreams.
The Jamaican Bird Pepper, capsicum annuum, a cultivar of the cayenne pepper. If you’re dingle is dangling, pop a few of these hot boys and get up and at ’em.
The Sauce Circle at Very Dear/Artvark. Some were soft and fruity, others were full tilt fire. It’s amazing what you can do with them Scotties.
The bottles that made up the Sauce Circle (in order with the above image).
Scotch Bonnet: You can put that sh*t in everything!
The sauce game isn’t messing around!
A wild bird pepper. These guys get their name from their delivery system around the island.
Blossoms and partially ripe fruit on a bird pepper.
The original pepper, Black Pepper, piper nigrum, and ol’ Chris Columbus’ only point of reference for the fiery fruits he “found” in the Caribbean. Hence their name. Those yellowing (ripening) berries were delicious!
Homemade Jerk Marinade spotted (and sampled) in the Maroon village of Mooretown!
Colonel Wallace Sterling offers me a pair of unidentified peppers, probably of the cayenne family. They go down the hatch and burn with a heat equivalent to a Thai Chili.
A favorite pass time of mine was “Spot the Bonnet” in Jamaican dishes. This is a lunch plate of Breadfruit, Festival, Aki and Salt fish. See the little red bits in that salt fish? Bonnets, baby!
Honey Infusions? In Jamaica? Well, do they have Scotty B Honey?
Did you even have to ask? Scotty B goes on/in/with everything!
When visiting the Natural Products Institute on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, don’t forget to check the pepper garden that lines the approach to the front door.
Some peppers Jenna collected from Coronation Market, Jamaica’s premier street market.
Even the fast food chain Island Grill, can’t escape the allure of the Scotch Bonnet.
It wouldn’t be right to live my last day in Jamaica without passing a prominent display with Bonnet on it.
Design Overview with water-loving companion plants (Bonus: chicken feed!)
Sytem Design Flow Plan. Uses gravity + water input to flow between stages.
Greywater drums concept sketch.
Center Piece Water Feature concept sketch.
Original Observations Map.
Proposed greywater reclamation site as it is in March of 2025.
A professional artist’s professional rendering of the system on site.
What the pond area could look like.
Unmodified location selected for scale weir testing.
Modified flow for plate emplacement.
Compilation of tested weir orifices.
Measuring headflow rate over a scale 60° trapezoidal weir orifice.
Demonstrated weir pool height compared to outflow.
View from downstream.
Watershed transformed by the use of a weir.
Head flow.
The team building up the hips on an in-creek water catchment box.
Nearing the end of day two (of three) on the emplacement project.
An objectively talented artist’s concept sketch of the catchment project.