The Caribbean’s largest, most technologically advanced and sustainable poultry processing plant!

To produce ‘a better tasting chicken’ that is also better for the environment and Jamaica, we invested in a state-of-the-art poultry processing plant. The CB Air Chill Plant is the anchor investment at The Nest and the only poultry processing plant in the Caribbean to use air-chilling technology, the more sustainable method of cooling chickens after slaughter. It is standard in Europe, but only used by a few players in North America.

We’ve invested in tripling our capacity, giving us the ability to substitute imports in the future and enhance food security. 

The region’s premier Training, Research & Development (TRD) facility for livestock.

Hill Run Farms is home to some 2.5 million chickens and 10,000 pigs every year. Here, we test different methodologies of growing animals in an effort to improve, learn and then teach other farmers. We get to test new diets, types of equipment and theories at our cost, not the farmers’. So, when we give advice or make a change, it’s already tried and proven. Farmers from neighbouring Caribbean territories, including Suriname and Guyana, have participated in immersive, weeks-long training programs here, equipping them to implement best practices and techniques in their home countries.

A 500+ acre farm for plants.

Harvest Hub is the primary location for the Imagination Farms operation that specializes in growing field crops like Scotch Bonnet Peppers and tree orchards, specifically, ackee, breadfruit and coconut. Everything we do here is part of an effort to build sustainable industries, reduce import dependency, and expand exports. Plus, planting trees plays a vital role in reducing our carbon footprint!

The only Protein Plant of its kind in Jamaica.

This plant takes biological waste from the CB Air Chill plant and converts it into protein meal—a valuable raw material for the global pet food industry. By processing 100% of the biological byproducts from our poultry operations, 20 million pounds of waste are now eliminated from entering the national landfill each year.

To preserve water, we recycle, repurpose, and let every drop live twice.

Our Water Treatment Plant processes and recycles wastewater from the CB Air Chill Plant, so it can be used as irrigation water at our farms. At our old water-chilling plant, none of the wastewater from its operations was harvested for reusable purposes. Now, little to no water from our poultry processing operations is being added to the national sewage system.