Garden Salad
This is one of our favorite salads. It's easy to prepare, very tasty and healthy, too. We just thrown in whatever salad greens and vegetables that's in our refrigerator. Balsamic vinaegrette goes well with almost any salad greens. Add feta, pecorino or parmesan cheese - that's it!
Pancit na Puti
Our weekly delivery from Juan Market arrived and we noticed that our pechay had beautiful yellow flowers. Inspired by its bright and happy color, we decided to create our own version of Pancit na Puti. Here's our simple recipe ...
Tabo Market in Palo, Leyte
On our second day in Tacloban, we requested our host to bring us to their local market. She told me there are two markets to choose from: one is their public market in downtown Tacloban and the other one is a Saturday market called “Tabo” in Palo.
Practical Tips on Growing Your Own Herbs
The best way to learn about herbs you are not be familiar with is to grow them yourself! You don't have to buy all of them at once. Enjoy the thrill of organically building your collection of herbs. We buy new herbs each time we visit a farm and/or weekend markets. To date, we have around 30 potted culinary and medicinal herbs.
Mabolo
Mabolo is easy to grow organically and we hope that this fruit will gain popularity again. Its current conservation status is 'vulnerable' and we hope farmers will continue to plant more mabolo trees for the next generation.
What is Organic?
Before a product can be labeled "organic", a US government-approved certifier inspects the farm where the food is grown to make sure the farmer meets USDA organic standards. Even companies that handle and/or process organic food, before it gets to local supermarket or restaurant, must be certified, too.
Food and Travel
Costales Nature Farms’ Harvest Festival
One of our pioneer partner-farms in Pinoy Organics is Costales Nature Farms. It is...
On Raw Food
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Sugarleaf Launches Healthy Choices
Today, Sugarleaf expands its mission in providing Filipinos better living and eating...
Green Grocers
We were happy to discover new green shops in two Central Business Districts. One...
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@Home
Gardening: The New Green Gym
Research shows that we burn more calories in an hour of gardening than would be done...
Japchae
We love Japchae, the Korean counterpart of our Guisadong Pancit. It was cool this...
Pancit na Puti
Our very first Pancit na Puti was bought in Corrie’s in Mandaluyong in 2002....
Teens’ Take On Organics
The other day, we randomly asked a Filipino 15-year old student what the word “organic”...
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Green Exchange
Costales Nature Farms’ Harvest Festival
One of our pioneer partner-farms in Pinoy Organics is Costales Nature Farms. It is situated just below the foot of Mount Banahaw, Brgy. Gagalot, Majayjay, Laguna. The Farm House Telco executive-turned-farmer Ronald Costales and his wife Josie personally toured us in their much smaller family farm when we visited in April 2010. Since then, we have worked... [Read more of this review]
Healthy Options Launches Organika
Three weeks ago, we noticed some local organic vegetables and farm fresh meats being sold the in Healthy Options Rockwell. We saw some beautiful french beans and had a hunch that they were grown by Costales Farms. True enough, a week after, Josie Costales sent us an SMS about a launch event by Healthy Options for their new product line of locally-grown... [Read more of this review]
It’s All About Relationships
Three years ago, we met an organic farmer who told us that our advocacy about organics is a romantic kind of love. He assured us that Pinoy Organics will go a long way and whatever challenges we will face in the future, our advocacy will be able to overcome them because we fell in love with it. We still remember how we responded to him. “Yes,... [Read more of this review]
Happy New You
What a great way to start our learning journey for 2013! Last Tuesday, we attended “Good News Kapihan” held in ECHOstore’s flagship store in Serendra BGC. The proponents for this event were Chit Juan and Tina Dumlao in partnership with ECHOstore and ECHOmarket. Great Line-Up of Resource Speakers on Health & Wellness Dr. Albert... [Read more of this review]
National Organic Agriculture Congress 2012
All our bags are packed and ready to go down South. This year’s National Organic Agriculture Congress on November 6 to 8 will be held in Cebu, one of the emerging organic farming centers in the country. Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacup of the Department of Agriculture (DA) said that about 1,500 participants from the different sectors are... [Read more of this review]
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