Fedna Stoll: a Caribbean inventor with global answers

Website design By BotEap.comCaptain Fedna Stoll is the inventor of a unique method of food preservation that makes it possible for the first time to enjoy the flavors of tropical fruit and plant-based products year-round. The distinction of Stoll technology is its 100% natural process and results, without additives and without preservatives. Pure, natural melon powder, orange powder, pineapple powder, banana powder, to name a few, are among Fedna Stoll’s 120+ TropiTaste recipe creations. Among the highlights of Stoll’s creations is a unique line of tropical fruit flavored instant cereals that require no cooking at all, just add water or milk – hot, warm or cold – and all the zest of flavors will emerge. of tropical fruits for a pleasing enjoyment to the palate.

Website design By BotEap.comThe Captain, as he is known and referred to by his friends and associates, was a retired international sea captain who was born in the Essequibo region of British Guiana (now Guyana). Called Guyana’s ‘Cinderella’ County, this area is home to the world-famous Kaiteur Falls, the prized Lake Tapakuma, which boasts the world’s largest collection of orchids, astonishing natural beauty, as well as vast mineral resources and, of course, That’s right, the tastiest pineapple in the Caribbean, the delicious ‘sugar loaf’ variety found at Mainstay Lake.

Website design By BotEap.comThe second child in a family of six, little Fedna grew up on a sprawling 300-acre coconut farm owned by his family, where an abundance of fruits and vegetables grew almost effortlessly in the humus-rich soil.

Website design By BotEap.comAt 15, like four generations of male ancestors, young Fedna went to sea. At 18, he was captain of his own ship and crew, a profession he practiced for the next forty years, and with which he supported his family and amassed his fortune in the waters of the Caribbean and seas. international.

Website design By BotEap.comAfter retirement, Stoll devoted his intellectual powers, willpower, creative energies and financial savings to food preservation, an enduring passion that first took root during his youth on the family’s coconut farm. Quietly, with each passing decade of his life as an adult sailor, this passion grew more intense and obsessive as he witnessed it firsthand, and at times was the one that commanded crew members to dump agricultural tonnage and produce. food in the Caribbean and the Atlantic. ocean simply because of the saturation or abundance of the market and the absence of conservation methods. However, as the years passed, it seemed unfathomable and incomprehensible that in this fragile ‘loving’ land, while millions of people starved for a morsel of food in other places, on the other side of the world, millions of thousands of tons of precious food was systematically discarded in an excessive way to the fish and the waves in the seas without meaning.

Website design By BotEap.comThus it was that, in 1984, at the end of Forbes Burnham’s failed socialist campaign to ‘feed, house and clothe the nation’, the retired Captain’s tireless work began in dark seriousness after his voluntary remigration to Guyana from his adoptive homeland. , Barbados. Having traversed the world and garnered countless experiences, the Captain was once again close to his boyhood roots in the Charity-Pomeroon area of ​​Essequibo.

Website design By BotEap.comSeven years passed, amid routine taunts from acquaintances and villagers who saw him as a crackpot and eccentric, before the Captain emerged from the woods, victorious. Like Edison, Stoll persistently pursued his goal: to be the first man in modern history to achieve 100% preservation without the use of or reliance on additives, sugars, sulfites, or chemicals. At the end of his seven-year ordeal, he was half a million dollars poorer, but he had mastered the scientific art of holistic preservation.

Website design By BotEap.comIn his rural retreat and experiment station at the edge of the woods, the Captain deliberately left no trace of his labyrinthine path to discovery. He even the principles he had discovered and earlier machine prototypes were discarded or dismantled, shielded from the inquisitive gaze of ungrateful eyes. Instead, he now chose to present his knowledge and discovery single-handedly in exchange for recognition, the happiness and well-being of others, and at least a return on his investment.

Website design By BotEap.comBut his descent from the top of the mountain with the good news did not turn out to be an easy path either. The leap from discovery to recognition and success would prove somewhat more daunting than the previous decade of patient and determined struggle.

Website design By BotEap.comBack in the sprawling capital of Georgetown, where national power is still grasped and greedily negotiated to this day, and policies and decisions are made and administered in rarefied bureaucratic chambers far removed from rural rhyme, the solid reason and reality, the Captain was faced with the bitterest pill he had yet to swallow. The new food laws, which were passed unbeknownst to most in 1971, began to be strictly enforced around 1987. As the Captain vividly puts it, “from then to this day, even ‘true’ Amerindian Casareep has been outlawed.” officially in Guyana. Instead, burnt sugar has been officially blessed, christened, and sold domestically and abroad as ‘authentic old-fashioned’ -guyanese tyme casareep’. Ridiculous, but true.”

Website design By BotEap.comThus, the obvious platform for his invention, in his homeland, and the prospects of solving the national agricultural problem of harnessing the fertile wealth of the land and profiting so easily from huge post-harvest losses were totally shattered. The ironic tragedy is that this past trend has continued intact into the present. As late as 1997, though the heart of his support base was in Guyana’s agricultural belt, even the late Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Guyana’s former president, died without making any changes to the draconian laws implemented under a previous socialist government.

Website design By BotEap.comDeeply disappointed, the Captain has since adopted a style that is open and averse to bureaucrats and politicians whose goals he unflatteringly says are only “control, votes and re-election.” the means to shape their own destiny and happiness”.

Website design By BotEap.comSo from 1991, like a chameleon, Stoll changed to adapt to the ‘new age’. He became an organic juice maker and conservationist working on local herbs and medicines. From his little organic juice shop in Georgetown, under the counter, he sold 100% natural dried pumpkin seeds packed with prostate disease potency; mangrove bark powder tea for diabetes; and even wafer-thin dehydrated aloes. To this day, his private clients still include several prominent city doctors whose allopathic medicines dispensed to others are not good enough for them or other clients in North America.

Website design By BotEap.comOutwardly, in recent years, it has seemed to those few who knew of his crowning achievement and seminal discovery that the Captain had put aside his life’s passion. But in fact, the Captain would selectively appear at progressive scientific meetings, on the local NGO circuit, and also at international regional conferences on dehydration and solar energy. Of course, Stoll, being a man of few words, invariably appeared with the cherished emblems of his achievement, the real products that others only talked about: mango powder, pineapple chips, banana flakes, papaya powder, flour breadfruit and no salt. dried fish, to name a few. For him it was never about monographs and speeches or hypotheses and theories. As is often the case at such events, much to the bewilderment of their regional and international dehydration and preservation scientific counterparts, the entire line of Stoll products is astonishingly 100% natural.

Website design By BotEap.comToday, Captain Fedna Stoll, the dark lad from Essequibo who finally got nauseous and tired of watching the mass wiping out of Caribbean post-harvest agricultural bounty, is the president of TropiTaste International Inc. and flagship of Stoll Thermo-Solar. . Dehydration system and technology. Over the past year, a subsidiary company has engaged Surland NV, the Surinamese banana exporter, in developing a HACCP food processing company to produce value-added banana products and a line of instant cereals, all 100% natural.

Website design By BotEap.comAccording to Jacques Drielsma, Surland’s managing director, Stoll’s invention offers the national company a value-added production solution to its persistent problems with bananas that it cannot export to European markets. Recent estimates have put non-exported bananas from Surland at up to 60% of the company’s total production.

Website design By BotEap.comFor decades to come or perhaps even centuries to come, the West Indies and the wider Americas will remember Fedna Stoll as the Caribbean’s own George Washington Carver. In thoughtful words that probe closely into the hearts and core of the environmental issues facing our fragile planet on the threshold of the 21st century, the Captain writes: “We are searching for the yellow gold metal buried in the earth within, while millions tons of green gold is wasted daily on the earth’s surface. It is strange,” he continues, “to see our leaders and people openly flirt with ecological disaster despite this discovery that has been made in the Guianas.”

Website design By BotEap.comWith calm assurance, the inventive genius lucidly declares, “We don’t need to plant any more acres. We’re already wasting more than 50% of what we produce. First, let’s begin to fully and efficiently utilize what the Earth produces and bounty of the ‘green gold’ that grows all around us, especially in the paradise of the Guianas and the Caribbean”.