IT IS PROVIDENTIAL that my eldest brother Juan told me to enrol in typing and stenography when I was in fourth year high school. Otherwise, I would not be an agri journalist today. Yes, I am not kidding. I would not be an agri editor and writer that I have […]

LET ME SHARE with you a very grave mistake that Alex (not his real name) committed.  In 2008 he was growing bell pepper for the first time in his farm in Lipa City. He got a very good harvest that he washed right after the fruits were harvested and brought […]

NOT A FEW of our readers have been inquiring from us where they can source the Large Blafck Pig we once featured on the cover of Agriculture Magazine and in our blog. Well, you can try contacting the persons we know who are taking care of this heirloom hog breed […]

ON OCTOBER 23, 2020, we talked on the phone with Edgar Godin, the Bisaya magazine editor who gave up his job in the city in April 2019 to go into farming full-time in the province.  He is the fellow who planted organic vegetables in their rooftop in San Jose del […]

WHEN WE visited Benguet State University in March 2017, we enjoyed eating the Benguet gooseberry from the organic store at BSU. The plant is also called Cape gooseberry and we learned from the Internet that it is a native of South America. LONG AGO – It must have been introduced […]

WHAT IMPRESSED us when we met Miguel Lucban in January 1992 was how he managed the family’s 13-hectare calamansi farm in Brgy. Cababto-an in Pambujan, Northern Samar. Their plantation was the biggest in the province so that Mike was often referred to as Northern Samar’s Calamansi King. WAS ALSO FASHION […]

WHEN we interviewed Capt. Oscar Barzaga in June 1992, he must have had the biggest number of purebred sheep in the country that he raised in a 14-hectare farm in Brgy. Langkaan in Dasmarinas, Cavite. A PAL pilot since 1969, he had more than 300 purebreds when we met him. […]