A Year in Photos 2015: A Beginner’s Permaculture Garden
Dec27

A Year in Photos 2015: A Beginner’s Permaculture Garden

A permaculture garden is a garden design where we model Nature for success. It doesn’t have the pristine look that we usually see from modern gardens. Instead, you’ll find dead leaves, piles of branches everywhere – a somewhat untidy sight actually, if you’re not used to it. But what you can also have from a permaculture garden are abundant organic harvest, fresh eggs, a very healthy soil and a beautiful garden...

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Having Chickens in the Garden
Dec13

Having Chickens in the Garden

Yep, we’ve got chickens! After setting up our vegetable plots and trellises,  we decided to raise some chickens to help us in our permaculture garden. The photo on the right is our first chicken family in September and now Mama Hen is already with her new set of cute little chicks. So how do chickens help us in the garden? They help with composting. We let them scratch and poop on our compost heap. Our chickens are free-range...

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Sampung Larong Pinoy
Nov21

Sampung Larong Pinoy

“Bato-bato pick! Bato-bato pick! Maiba’y TAYA! Talo ka! Ikaw ang taya! Game na”.  Ito ang madalas nating marinig sa mga bata noon na masayang naglalaro sa kanilang mga bakuran, nagtatawanan, naghahabulan at walang pagsidlan ang mga ngiti. Buhay na buhay ang kamusmusan at tila ba kanila ang mundo at walang mga problema. Dito sa Lucena, nakakatuwang pagmasdan ang mga batang nilalaro pa rin ang mga larong Pinoy sa kabila ng mabilis na...

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10 Short Videos that can Help You in Your Garden
Sep27

10 Short Videos that can Help You in Your Garden

Do you want to learn the basics of gardening in less than an hour? Here are the videos I wished I have seen when I was getting started.   1. Easiest Way to Tell if Your Soil is Healthy in Your Garden (2:09 mins) In this video, you will see what a healthy soil looks like. You will hear about the food soil web, composting, and worm castings.   2. Container Gardening (5:27 mins) I started planting in containers when I first got...

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Attracting Butterflies to our Garden
Sep06

Attracting Butterflies to our Garden

We have more than 900 different species of butterflies here in the Philippines. Pictured on the right is a female Striped Albatross (Appias olfern), a regular visitor in our garden at this time. Aside from their beauty, butterflies also serve as pollinators for plants and food source for other animals like birds and spiders. Butterflies are also considered as indicator species. Because butterflies are sensitive to the changes in their...

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3 Things I Learned Working on a Permaculture Garden
Aug30

3 Things I Learned Working on a Permaculture Garden

I wanted to start a permaculture garden here in Lucena. Articles about global warming, declining animal population and the like had me looking around to find something I could do for my part. I found permaculture after a couple of years and I felt it was exactly what I was looking for. It’s been a year now and let me share 3 main things that I learned during our first year of permaculture gardening. Things are a lot easier when...

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The Bees and a Vegetable Garden in the Philippines
Aug23

The Bees and a Vegetable Garden in the Philippines

The buzzing sounds of bees in our garden in Lucena mean only one thing for me: more harvests. Some people drive away bees thinking they eat the vegetables in their garden, when the truth is that the bees are needed by our plants to produce fruits and vegetables. Have you ever heard someone say that when you have few harvest, you put two flowers together so you’ll have more? That’s pollination –  some version of hand...

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Interesting Bike Routes for Bikers in Lucena City
Aug16

Interesting Bike Routes for Bikers in Lucena City

It’s another relaxing Sunday. For most people, this is the best time to clean around the house or to wash some laundry, maybe continue the book they were reading or catch up on the latest episodes of the series they were following, and, hey, that’s perfectly fine. It’s a precious rest day after all — one that we should enjoy to the fullest — but for those who are looking for a little more outdoor thrill...

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Tiny World of Weeds: A Photo Essay
Jul19

Tiny World of Weeds: A Photo Essay

Did you know that the plants we often call weeds are also known as nature’s band-aid? Certain types of weed tend to grow in areas where they are needed while also providing food for wildlife. While I do not recommend letting weeds go wild in our gardens, I do believe that we don’t need to completely eliminate them either. Below are the weeds I took from the garden using my phone and a macro lens. I am only focusing on the...

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How to start a Small Vegetable Garden in Lucena City
Jul12

How to start a Small Vegetable Garden in Lucena City

Have you ever wanted to grow your own vegetable garden? And you didn’t know where to start so somehow you just don’t follow through? It also doesn’t help that most search results in the internet are about growing plants in areas with 4 seasons when we generally only have two. Well, getting started now just got easier by following our guide to starting a small vegetable garden here in Lucena. Step 1. Prepare a garden...

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