After two of their children were diagnosed with autism spectrum, Lorenzo “LJ” Y. Sumulong III and his wife, Ma. Carina (nee Avanzado), decided to grow their own food.
PANAJI, India — Coconut trees are no longer considered trees in the tropical Indian state of Goa, where authorities have reclassified them as palms to allow farmers to cut them
A former mushroom and poultry farmer has been crowned Miss Uganda following a major rebranding of the annual beauty pageant, now designed to promote agriculture in the east African nation.
When Hindy Weber Tantoco and her family decided to trade the daily stress of living in the city for life on a farm, she didn’t expect to get bored, not even when the children were in school. She focused her energies on gradually turning their house—cleverly made out of container vans—into a home.
While some of my friends took in the view of a Tuscan vineyard and thought about the romance it evokes, a voice behind them declared: “It’s just a farm.”
Two weeks ago, a man whom I’ve never seen before came to my farmhouse in Sitio Bulakbulak. He was ushered in by Puring, our caretaker. The man came in barefoot and must have left his slippers on the stairs, a habit of barrio folk afraid to soil the shiny floor of a big, nice house in town.
MY PATIENCE ran out when typhoon “Reming” (circa 2009) destroyed my rambutan and lanzones orchard in Majayjay, Laguna.
There are several kinds of farmers. The common types are the poor ones you often see plowing the fields using their carabaos. He’s the rural, do-it-yourself farmer. If he does not farm, his family will starve.
BAY, Laguna—“I started from nothing.” So says Lourdes Redoloza of how she began her eight-year passion for gardening, a hobby that has proven fruitful, if only to remind herself that
This level and budget of health consciousness is perhaps hard to top. A prominent high society member has been staying in a pricey health farm for months now. The person and spouse have been living there, subsisting on the health diet and regimen and luxuriating in its verdant, idyllic environment.
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