12 “Phenomenal Woman’s Day” in Winston-Salem. She looks back on that honor with gratitude. Mayor Allen Joines awarded her the proclamation because of her work through what was then ...

The Jamaica Agricultural Society crowned Facey a phenomenal woman in agriculture in 2023 and that motivated her to take on farming as a way to fulfil a mandate given to mentor other women.

“I am left-handed so I desperately wanted to hold the instrument instinctually the other way around. That was a little traumatic – it resulted in crying through my first few lessons!