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Before this was one of Saint Lucia’s most intimate villa resorts, it was a working cocoa plantation. 🍫
Welcome to Stonefield Villa Resort.
🌴 Just 17 villas across 26 acres
🌋 Direct views of Petit Piton
🏊 Every villa has its own private pool
👨👩👧👦 Owned by the same Saint Lucian family for more than 50 years
For years, cocoa harvested here crossed the Atlantic and ended up in Cadbury chocolate.
When plant disease eventually destroyed the cocoa business, the Brown family reinvented the estate.
Villas replaced farming as its future, but the family never left.
Today, Anista Brown still owns Stonefield, her five children remain involved, and even her recipes appear on the restaurant menu.
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Transcript
This Saint Lucian woman spent every childhood summer on a cocoa plantation where her family worked. In 1972, her and her husband bought it. Today, it's a 17 villa resort rank she still owns it. This is Stonefield Villa Resort Saint Lucia. It sits on a hillside above Soufriere, facing Tier Piton, a 2,400 foot volcanic spike rising straight out of the Caribbean. The estate dates to the seventeen hundreds, producing coffee, then lime, then cocoa. In 1967, a Canadian builder named Wayne Brown, who had worked on the Habitat 67 in Montreal, came to Saint Lucia to survey land. He ended up building Annes Chastenet Resort and becoming an owner. He also married a Saint Lucian woman named Anista, whose family had worked this very estate. So when Stonefield came up for sale in 1972, they got the first chance to buy it. They kept every estate worker and ran the cocoa operation themselves. For years, their harvest crossed the Atlantic into Cadbury chocolate bars. But when plant disease killed the cocoa business, they needed a new plan. Wayne started designing and building villas, with every piece of furniture made by local carpenters in Soufriere. By 1998, the home where they had raised five children became a resort. Today, there are just 17 villas across 26 acres.
