Susan Marges Gonzales, a BPO (Business Processing Outsourcing) employee, recently decided to start working on the farmland that her late father left her and her five sisters in Indang, Cavite. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she realized that a sustainable source of healthy food is...
Grocery stores, markets, and restaurants have made buying food easy, which is why many people tend to take food for granted. The current pandemic has shed light on the issues of food insecurity, encouraging more individuals to engage in securing nutritious, good, and fair food. This is partly why a...
The Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) is building a P155-billion 'Urban Ring Road', a network linking expressways in all four directions of Metro Manila to make travel seamless for motorists. By-passing the heart of every city the ring road is designed to improve circulation and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university based in the United States. Under this is the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) , a research enterprise in Singapore that is the largest international research program of MIT. SMART consists of...
As told to Vina Medenilla In the first part of this article , Cristina and Carlo Guerrero, owners of Athena’s Garden in San Juan City, shared the tale of how their garden has transformed from an unused, futile land to a thriving garden. Here, Cristina Guerrero, a professional biologist, has...
CEBU CITY – Nutrition implementors in Cebu Province specifically from the cities of Bogo and Toledo received vegetable seeds from the Department of Agriculture (DA-7) for household and community food production gardens as one way to address malnutrition especially among children in this time...
By now, most of us have already engaged or have become interested in urban gardening which is the practice of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas. More than being a source of food for households and communities, urban gardening also has benefits in augmenting...
Despite already being a trend as well as a proposed solution to curb both hunger and malnutrition, there has been a rising interest in urban gardening recently particularly due to the nationwide imposed community quarantine which kept people inside the safety of their own homes. With more...
CEBU CITY – The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) lauded the Davao Region Agriculture Cooperative (Draco) for introducing natural composting as part of a special training for aspiring young agricultural entrepreneurs in Davao City to sustain urban gardening to produce food and help...
Most of us are familiar with Gretchen Fullido as she graced our television screens to bring us the latest celebrity news in the segment Star Patrol on ABS-CBN’s TV Patrol. She is also known as a model, host, and a triathlete. There is, however, another side to Fullido that has piqued the...
Hapi Chickens Urban Farm, as its name implies, is a household-based urban chicken farm in Dagupan run by Christopher and Hapi Domingo. They started the farm in hopes of creating a self-sustainable chicken meat and egg production initially for their household consumption. In the previous part...
When we talk about urban farming what usually comes to mind is growing vegetables, fruits, and all sorts of edible plants which could be used for personal consumption. A couple decided to take a different approach and invested in chickens instead. Christopher and Hapi Domingo are...
