MBA Students from Belgium Visit the Nu Wave Farmers

Last Monday, we had lunch at Cafe Antonio; went on a campus tour of UPLB; visited Rina Tan de Luna's organic garden in CVM and OJ Gomez's livestock farm in Collegeville; had dinner at Big D's ramen house; and finally coffee at Cafe Antonio (again) with Drei H. Castillo

Hope Flaviano (from the Philippines) and Janeth Alvarez Gil (from Colombia) are MBA students from the Vlerick Business School in Belgium. They are doing a study on Good Food Community for their thesis.

On Tuesday, Hope and Janeth together with Good Food Community's Drei, helped me harvest vegetables at Kainos Farm for this week's CSA delivery.

After that we went to Bay to visit Tara Farms.

Nu Wave Farmers x Good Food Community x Kainos Farm

 

Epic Laguna Road Trip

We had a semi-impromptu, semi-unplanned Laguna road trip with my French and English friends.

Went to Pagsanjan Falls first then we found out it was very expensive (php 1300/person for a boat ride!!!), so Noura suggested we go to San Pablo instead.

So we visited Brian Amante Belen at Ato Belen's Farm then we looked for Lake Pandin (we got lost!). Had a light lunch on a bamboo raft and swam on the lake for a while. Then we hiked a bit to see Lake Yambu.

After that we headed to Costales Nature Farms, thanks to Reden Costales for entertaining us. Of course, we also got lost going there. We had our second lunch there. The food was amazing! I also brought some of my Talongevity and Astoldby Ginger Beer.

Then we headed back to Los Banos for some Letty's Buko Pie and sundaes at 711.

not bad for a 7am - 7pm trip!

gonna miss you Noura Ouazzani and Victor Doz'! have a safe flight and keep in touch! :D

Harvest Time at Kainos Farm with Timmi

Mulching with Banana Leaves and Planting Comfrey

Planted comfrey beside my lemon tree. comfrey has long roots that can drill deep into the soil to access nutrients that the roots of the lemon tree cannot reach. once the comfrey dies and decomposes, the nutrients will now be accessible to the lemon tree. ‪#‎GeoffLawton‬ ‪#‎Permaculture‬ ‪#‎NuWaveFarmers‬
you can buy comfrey seedlings at Ofel's Organic Garden along the highway of Bay, Laguna

Rainy Season Gardening

Mulched the pathways with cardboard and concrete slabs.

The gabi we planted early this year have started growi

Cassava plants

My bananas are growing fast!

Ginger for our ginger beer

Okra and corn plots

Planted a bignay tree

Planted a guyabano tree

Planted a chico tree

Also planted a lemon tree