Producing milk without preservatives, additives, or extenders is what Pinkie’s Farm has been recognized for. Pinkie Limcaoco, businesswoman and proprietor of Pinkie’s Farm, has been practicing this method since 2009. Although this means that the shelf life of the products is shorter, she...
“Rice remains as the staple food of Filipinos. And there is no food that is used as widely as rice,” says Department of Trade and Industry Undersecretary Ruth B. Castelo on the Philippines being the sixth largest rice-consuming countries in the world. After over a year of enactment of the...
In celebration of the first International Day of Awareness for Food Loss and Waste Reduction, Worldwide Fund For Nature (WWF) Philippines held a webinar entitled ‘Save Our Food, Save Our Planet’ to spread awareness in combating the rising issue on food waste by initiating change within our...
Along with practicing healthy eating habits is making sure that the food we consume is safe and nutritious. For this reason, there has been a surge of interest in gardening among individuals (in urban and rural areas) who try to grow their food amid the pandemic. In AgriTalk’s webinar on herb...
Individuals from farming families either choose to continue the legacy of their ancestors or go after their passion outside farming. But sometimes, it’s also doing both. For spouses Xavier and Malou Peña, a retired employee and bank staff respectively, farming has been an open opportunity...
Romulo B. Ayag, or Ka Mulong as he is fondly called, owner of Ka Mulong’s Farm, had to go through a tough life to obtain the hard-earned achievements that he and his family now savor. In Sariaya, Quezon, a total of 20,000 square-meter land covers Ayag’s farm. 3,000 sqm is designated for...
Many people practice gardening not only as a hobby, but as a form of therapy, too. This is the same rationale of Adrian Vincent Alipio, 31, a medical doctor and diplomate of Philippine College of Physicians, who started tending plants in 2015 to pursue a therapeutic hobby. “Life in the...
Nowadays, people are seeing the importance of healthy food consumption and domestic food production. This is the same reason why a couple decided to convert their main crop from coffee to adlai a few years ago. Kiboa Ridge Farms (KRF), a farm that lies in Impasugong, Bukidnon focuses on cultivating...
Herbs, aside from personal consumption, can also be grown commercially not only because of their culinary and medicinal benefits, but because these are also profit-making plants due to high market demand. From only growing the common vegetables for his personal consumption to learning...
In the culinary industry, sourcing quality ingredients is equally important as the preparation of meals in the kitchen. Knowing this, chefs Jay Angeles and his wife Ana Maria, 31 and 28 respectively, ventured into farming with the intent to cultivate their own produce that they can use for their...
Park Ji Hyo, Yoo Jeong-yeon, and Sana Minatozaki, three members of the nine-strong South Korean girl group TWICE took a quick break from performing as they tried a new hobby — gardening. A series entitled JEONGSAJI’s (Jeongyeon, Sana, and Jihyo’s) home gardening was recently introduced on...
A lot of people become farmers in retirement. One of them is Thelma Murillo, a retiree who is now a full-time farmer after working in the corporate world for more than 30 years. Murillo shares that her fondness for farming arose from childhood. “I was exposed to planting at an early age...
