{"id":166,"date":"2007-08-30T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress\/uncategorized\/gouyave-nutmeg-pool\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T05:19:52","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T05:19:52","slug":"gouyave-nutmeg-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/grenada-attractions\/gouyave-nutmeg-pool\/","title":{"rendered":"Gouyave Nutmeg Pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"center\">Gouyave Nutmeg Pool<\/h2>\n<p>Nutmeg once drew the most tourists to Gouyave, which still hosts <strong>the largest processing station on the island<\/strong> &#8211; Gouyave Nutmeg Pool. Prior to Hurricane Ivan, Grenada was the <strong>world&#8217;s second largest producer<\/strong> of the spice which largely accounts for the faint aroma that pervades the town of Gouyave. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/images\/gouyave-nutmeg-pool-4.jpg\" alt=\"gouyave nutmeg pool grenada Mike Sheehan photography\" height=\"252\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo above: Nutmegs drying at Gouyave Nutmeg Pool)<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, thousands of tourist acquainted themselves with the processing of the nutmeg fruit at the Gouyave Nutmeg Pool<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>from the separation from the pod, <\/li>\n<li>to the detachment of the surrounding mace,<\/li>\n<li>to the cracking of the shell, <\/li>\n<li>and eventual sorting of the nutmeg. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This four step process was carried out and explained to visitors in what for many years was the largest building in Grenada.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/images\/gouyave-nutmeg-pool.jpg\" alt=\"gouyave nutmeg pool grenada Mike Sheehan photography\" height=\"232\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo above: Nutmegs dried and ready for export)<\/p>\n<p>Now, although the nutmeg industry is largely in recovery, the process continues on a smaller scale at the Gouyave Nutmeg Pool. And it is even more defined for visitors like you. <\/p>\n<p>On your visit, <strong>get your hands on sample packs of Grenada&#8217;s array of some of the most aromatic spices<\/strong>. So when you visit Gouyave add some spice to your life, by checking out the Gouyave Nutmeg Pool.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Pages:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/spices-in-grenada.html\">Grenada Spices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/dougaldston-estate.html\">Gouyave Dougaldston Estate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div ><a href=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/gouyave.html\">Return from Gouyave Nutmeg Pool to Gouyave Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/index_2.html\">Return from Gouyave Nutmeg Pool to Grenada Beaches Home<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gouyave Nutmeg Pool Nutmeg once drew the most tourists to Gouyave, which still hosts the largest processing station on the island &#8211; Gouyave Nutmeg Pool. Prior to Hurricane Ivan, Grenada was the world&#8217;s second largest producer of the spice which largely accounts for the faint aroma that pervades the town of Gouyave. (Photo above: Nutmegs&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/grenada-attractions\/gouyave-nutmeg-pool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gouyave Nutmeg Pool<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[212],"tags":[91,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grenada-beaches.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}