Castle Nugent Farms is located on the south shore of a tiny jewel of an island in the Caribbean, in the U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Croix is the biggest of the three U.S. Virgins but is just seven miles wide at her widest and twenty-eight miles long from tip to tail. While St. Croix has a very interesting history and has had at least seven flags flown over it, we have been a United States Territory since 1917. This means that:

• You are vacationing in the U.S.A. (although you won't believe how very friendly everyone is!)
• English is our official language (although you will hear some Spanish and some “Cruzan” patois)
• The U.S. dollar is our currency (although bartering and trading is alive and well amongst locals)
• We use the U.S. Post Office (it's easy and inexpensive to ship things home)
• We use regular U.S. phone service carriers
• We even have a delegate to the U.S. Congress!
• Duty-free shopping means big savings!

All of this means that it is very easy for you to come and visit us, and you will feel right at home, even though you are experiencing the unique beauty, flavor and culture of the Caribbean and the Crucian people! You’re not too far from home, and yet you could be on the Mediterranean, or in Morrocco...

For more specific information about our island and its history, please peruse the library of links we have assembled on the right side of the page.

The solitude and quiet of Castle Nugent Guesthouse can be “A Place To Dream.” Looking south over St. Croix’s reef to the horizon...
/photo by Luca Gasperi

Castle Nugent Farms has been breeding Senepol since 1957 on our ranch on St. Croix, the largest of the US Virgin Islands, a territory of the U.S. At Castle Nugent, genetics and free range have kept the breed’s qualities at their highest level through the years. Selection and improvement are a constant active goal on our ranch on the East end of St. Croix, (where climatic conditions are harsher than on the West end of the island) to always reach for the top in fertility, performance and conformation.

Much of the beef produced here at Castle Nugent is sold locally. Popularity of Senepol beef continues to rise as health conciousness does; more people are demanding grass-fed, hormone-free low-fat beef that is naturally rich in flavor and nutrients.

Traffic stops as a herd of Castle Nugent cows
with young calves crosses South Shore Road.

Exportation of Senepol from Castle Nugent Farms for breeding purposes has been steady during the past 10 years. (Embryos and semen are also exported.) Castle Nugent Farms is considered a Genetic Bank for the Senepol breed. Live animal shipments have been consistently intense in recent years to all the Sun Belt States (Florida through Texas) and Australia, with the result that CN brand is quite common on many ranches with Senepol cattle.

For more information about renting our Guesthouse or to request a brochure, call or send address to:

Caroline Gasperi
Castle Nugent Farms
Phone/Fax (340) 773-1508
POB 969 Christiansted St.Croix VI 00821