The hairy and highly under rated local fruit: rambutan, is as delicious as it is nutritious, especially all the more so when it’s organically and naturally grown. Come savour these premium heavenly-tasting sweetness from the farm!
Category: Musings
Macaranga Leaves: A Celebration of the Pioneering Spirit
Macaranga leaves are not just a favourite among the sheep who feast on them. These broad leaves play a crucial role in balancing out our natural ecosystem. They pave the way for life to thrive.
Certified Sustainability (ESG) Practitioner, Advanced Edition
It takes more than just theory and frameworks to break into the ESG game. Starting with this certification and many more to come, these are just the beginning steps to bigger dreams in realising my goals of being an ESG specialist.
An Enlightening Poultry Farming Experience
Poultry farming is as much about their living environment and the ecological balance achieved, as it is about the birds. These birds are smart with high survival instincts so that we humans can survive too, if we know how to raise them sustainably.
Recalculating Route: A Reflection of Resilience in Difficult Times
A biodiverse ecosystem is a resilient system to combat adversity. Given proper care, it is a regenerative system that produces net benefit for our heath, wellbeing and environment. It appears I have been that biodiverse ecosystem all these years.
Weaponizing Sustainably-grown Food as Agents for Change
It is often said that the most powerful weapon of war is food. Growing your own food is a stronger statement against corruption than you can imagine.
Too hot to handle!
Picking bird’s eye chilies is back-breaking work, time consuming and tedious. They fetch a good price for a reason: it takes volume over a painfully long time to contribute to the coveted price per kilogram. However, selling it successfully is another story.
Chugging along with the trickling Cash Crop
The cash crop of brinjals, calamansi limes, papayas, bananas and chillies are trickling in. Without full time workers and an established system, reaping satisfactory results from a mixed farming setup remains an elusive dream.
Selling Farm Produce at my Apartment Carpark
From preparing the ground, sowing/growing, tending to crops, harvesting, grading and then packing to deliver all by myself; a small farmer’s job never ends. I guess a farmer can never really be called one until the process of selling is experienced.
Wild Forage: Moon Mushroom
There’s something about foraging for food in the wild that tickles the imagination of a truly sustainable livelihood. When that food is a giant size mushroom, it’s a mind blowing experience.