Pack Your Bags For the Caribbean Island You Haven't Heard of — Yet

Organic eating isn’t a trend in Dominica, it’s a way of life. With over 1,000 flowering plants on the island, locals, like the farmers and botanists of Bellevue Chopin Organic Farmers Movement, have natural, plant-based cures for everything from a stomachache (bush tea that cured my traveler’s gut) to weight loss to scientifically proven instances of reduction in instances of diabetes. But it’s not just health cures, it’s the spring water many Dominicans drink and the fresh fish that they eat. There’s such a high respect for nature on this island that there’s almost a symbiotic relationship with locals and the land; they really get to the very root of organic.