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Many gardeners tend to focus on the growing stage of their crops, but paying attention to them during the harvesting stage can also make a large impact on both the flavor and nutrition of the produce. Here are some tips on how to do it. 

Gardening has always been a productive hobby that many people have engaged in. Over a year, more people have started growing plants in their homes or personal spaces. 

Composting can be time, labor, and space-consuming. It involves materials and processes that vary depending on the compost type. But did you know that you can reuse some food scraps for your plants without having to go through the whole composting process?

Due to the perils of the pandemic on public health and food security, the number of individuals who started farming went up. Among those who established a survival garden is Revelation Villarino Palado, a senior pastor at the New Life Christian Ministries church in Talisay, Batangas.

Strawberries aren’t the only popular type of berry available in the Philippines. Mulberries, locally known as moras, are also abundantly grown throughout the country. Traditionally, these trees are grown in Asia and North America for their leaves, which are the only things that cultivated silkworms eat. 

Taking care of plants is a joyful and continuous learning experience. And although gardeners love their plant babies, there will be some instances that they have to leave them behind—for a few days at least. 

What does agriculture have to do with traditional Filipino tattooing? A lot more than most people think.

Today, the term “processed food” is also linked to a negative connotation. This immediately creates a mental picture of instant noodles and other just-add-water meals that can be fittingly categorized as “ultra-processed food.”

VPO Farms and Eco Reserve sits in a 500-hectare family land in Barangay Sta. Cruz, Rosario, Agusan del Sur. It is split into two zones: a working farm and a protected area. Outside the preserved marshland and forested area, there's livestock and agroforestry that sustain the farm.

Humans can metabolize a good portion of the drugs they’ve consumed. But the drugs that aren’t metabolized can come out of people’s urine and end up in our waterways because sewage treatment plants aren’t designed to filter drugs out. 

Many religions around the world view life as sacred. This is why people who follow these religions engage in activities that help preserve life such as feeding and livelihood programs. 

The effects of the climate crisis, habitat loss, and pesticide use are the main contributors to the decline in the number of wild pollinators. One study shows that exposing bees to caffeine may aid farmers in getting their crops pollinated.

Today, there are more than 130 critical watersheds in the country. In Iloilo, one-fourth of the watersheds are identified as critical by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Global carbon emissions reaching an all-time high in 2018 have led climate experts to believe this will lead to catastrophic warming by 2100 or before. Some experts suggest that carbon farming techniques that extract carbon dioxide from the air and store it in soil can combat the threat of climate change. 

Jeon Jung-kook, better known as Jungkook, is a South Korean singer and songwriter. He is the youngest member of BTS which has adoring fans from around the world. 

In Antique province, Irish Trogani, and her husband Francis, event suppliers, are part of those individuals who began growing plants during the pandemic to cope with stress. From a  hobby, the two entrepreneurs eventually found themselves making money from the plants they propagate. 

Delays and cancellations of plans seemed to be the new normal these days due to COVID-19. Husband and wife Irish and Francis Trogani, who both work as event suppliers, had to deal with the impacts of the pandemic on their business, especially when face-to-face mass gatherings were prohibited at the height of COVID-19.

Composting is a simple and ideal way to transform kitchen waste into something beneficial for a garden and the environment. But not everything can be composted.