Fragrant Hawaiian Orchids
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2y ago
I have acquired a few new orchids for my farm. All the orchids originate from Hawaii, and I was delighted to see these were adult size, and already in bloom. I purchase these pampered plants from their growers, who raise them in greenhouses, and feed them chemicals. I do the reverse...I allow these plants to go and live in the tropics, in their natural environment on my farm. If they make it, I am very pleased, but if these plants cannot cope without the attention they are used to in the greenhouses, then they will collapse and die. However, even in death, these plants can suddenly come back t ..read more
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Deluge Monsoon Season August 2013
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2y ago
I had a lovely weekend, despite the monsoon rains with my girlfriends who stayed over in my little farm in Silang. We had lunch in Marcia Adams, at a new little restaurant in Alfonso, Cavite. We stayed at the farm, just chilling and experiencing the peace and quiet of the upland Cavite countryside. I am glad we all came down late afternoon, Sunday, because that evening, the monsoon rains started to fall in sheets! How timely our return to Manila. We missed the closure of the Southern Luzon Express (SLEX) by a few hours. Southwoods exist towards SLEX, is always a shorter route back to Manila Ho ..read more
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Rainy Season 2013
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2y ago
Rainy season automatically raises my flowers up from their sleep, and my little farm is now ablaze with color! I don't have a manicured property...in fact right now my project is to scatter flowering seeds on the big field, and just let it bloom wild! yehey! Please send comments to:theorganicmom@gmail.com ..read more
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Summer Harvest 2013
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2y ago
I know it has been years since I came to blog something about my farm. I was devastated about being infested with pythons. The town where my farm is located has suddenly become the center of urban development. Everywhere it seems are these new projects for subdivisions and shopping malls. The town of Silang is not yet a city, but the population is growing by the thousands of rich people settling in swank subdivisions. The poor are following, by squatting    on the roadside and around creeks and rivers.  The people are  streaming in from squatter areas&n ..read more
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I can watch butterflies all day!
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2y ago
I was canvassing the internet on blogs that are about my favorite insect...the butterfly. I also love bumble bees! The Bumble Bees are huge, black and they love to pollinate my flowers! They don't harm me but sometimes they get all excited and fly right for my face! I just have to freeze, stay calm, and they excuse themselves and go right back to the flowers! SWALLOW TAIL BUTTERFLY GIANT CARPENTER BEE ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY BIRDSWING BUTTERFLY  POSTMAN BUTTERFLY FRITTARLY CABBAGE BUTTERFLY BIRDSWING  PAINTED LADY PAPILLION  SULPHUR BUTTERLFY SPOTTED JUDY BUTTERF ..read more
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Rice Fields
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2y ago
I was traveling around my province of Cavite and it was still drizzling. Uncommon during this time when we are about to get into our tropical summer season. I stopped to admire farmers harvesting rice, and ready to plant a new crop while the rains still were coming in very regularly. There is that song I learned in grade school, that keeps playing in my head when I am near a rice field..it goes something like " Planting rice is never fun, bend from one to setting sun " Anyway....these muddy fields were side by fields with tiny rice stalks already planted The tiny rice plants are act ..read more
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Banaba Tea -- Cure for Diabetes and Kidney failure
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2y ago
The banaba tree is a rainforest tree growing in Southeast Asia and India. The scientific name is "Lagerstroemia speciosa L" and it is a flowering tree that has lavender blooms. Banaba is also known as the "cape myrtle" tree. The bark, and leaves of this tree is used in the Philippines by herbolarios or herbal medicine men/women to treat "manas" or swelling of ankles or other parts of the body. Banaba's principal ingredient is corrosolic acid, a substance that has the same effect on the body as insulin medication, only without the harmful side effects that chemical medicines have on the human b ..read more
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The Flash
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2y ago
I visited my farm yesterday, and fell asleep almost when I got in. The air was so fresh, the oxygen in the air totally relaxed me to the point I recovered many months of insomnia during a three hour nap. Waking up, I heard my favorite kingfisher screeching, and went out right away to see what he was up to. My kingfisher lives in the coconut tree next to my bedroom. He senses I am there, because my farm hands tell me the bird never performs antics when I am not around. Again, I see him perched on the bar beside the stables. He jumps up and down, flashing his aqua colored feathers at me, then ..read more
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Remembering the energy of 20 years ago..and making a serious decision..
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2y ago
I've been staying too long in the city. My lungs hurt from inhaling the foul air, especially during the holidays when fireworks go off for hours after the clock strikes midnight during the New Year celebrations. Metro-Manila's smog was full of dangerous chemicals in fireworks that blended with the regular pollution. It was time for healing and meditation once more at my countryside hideaway in the uplands of Cavite province. The small place that I own has become a haven for me and even a few of my friends who like spending a few days while they go about their business in the nearby towns. My ..read more
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Should I now learn to make snakeskin leather?
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2y ago
I will discuss one of the problems that is an indicator of the future changes that may happen at my farm as a result of global warming. I am now host to the wildlife that has decided to move nearer to the urban community that has invaded my quiet haven in the town of Silang. At my farm, wildlife are now turning up in the wrong places. This may seem trivial to most people who will claim it is a normal thing to find snakes in the gardens in the tropics. I think it is not abnormal to find snakes, but not dozens of 15 foot pythons in the area where I have my farm. For the first time, the annual ..read more
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