Jamaica, at Home and Abroad

Longform stories of Jamaica. exile, belonging, and diaspora.

by Shellie-Ann Kerns

Essays • Reporting • Narrative Journalism

the stories we tell are about…

For the people who work the land and the sea.

Ground tells the stories of farmers, fishermen, and the laborers whose hands shape the Caribbean landscape. It follows the rhythms of planting and harvest, the economics of small-scale agriculture, and the quiet inheritance of knowledge passed between generations. These are the stories that rarely make the news but hold the country together.