A Red Lady in the Garden

After 6-8 months, without any special care, we harvested our first papaya from our garden and ate it for breakfast today! Thought of sharing this milestone. Do you have a fruit tree , too? If none, what fruit tree do you want to have in your garden?

Practical Tips on Growing Your Own Herbs

When innovators Mara Pardo de Tavera and Gil Carandang encouraged us to get our hands dirty and learn about urban gardening, we did not expect that we would be doing it this soon. After visiting several farms and talking to other successful urban gardeners about it, we started building our kitchen garden by buying herbs. [...]

Gil Carandang, Father of Philippine Organic Farming

Almost everybody we interviewed for Pinoy Organics acknowledge Gil Carandang as their mentor and/or inspiration in the field of Philippine Organic Farming. Gil is regarded by colleagues and students in the agricultural community as the “Father of Philippine Natural and Organic Farming”. He is a graduate of the Apprenticeship program on Ecological Horticulture, University of [...]

Bio-Dynamic Farming in the Philippines

In the recent workshop we attended about Bio-Dynamic Farming organized by The Institute for Steiner’s Ideas in Practice (ISIP), we thought of sharing some frequently asked questions on bio-dynamic agriculture from the Practical Abundance Workbook: What is bio-dynamic agriculture or bio-dynamic farming? The bio-dynamic agricultural method activates the life of soil and plants. Fundamental to [...]

An Abundant Weekend

Overwhelmed. Overjoyed. Two words to describe how our team felt on our way home from our two-day seminar spearheaded by Reimon Gutierrez of The Institute for Steiner’s Ideas in Practice (ISIP) Philippines and Greg Kitma of Philippine Bio-Dynamic Agriculture Research Foundation (PhilBio). Overwhelmed because of the new things we heard, saw and learned; overjoyed because [...]