Aside from the already existing fruit trees within the farm like guyabano (soursops), buko (coconut),

suha
(pomelos), native cherries and bayabas (guavas), we’ve planted more guyabano, mangoes, marang
(johey oak), santol (cottonfruit), sampalok (tamarind), rambutan, lanzones (langsat), chico (sapodilla),
avocado, duhat (black plum), aratilis (strawberry tree), atis (custard apple), calamansi, chestnuts, kaymito
(star apple), langka (jackfruit), dalandan (Philippine orange), bread fruit, some varieties of bananas,
papaya, and vines such as passion fruit and grapes.

We’ve made a small kitchen garden, which is a vegetable plot that is near the kitchen for easy access
when preparing meals. We plant it with pechay (bokchoy), bitter gourd, onions, a variety of chillies, black
pepper, pandan, mustard, lettuce, French beans and some herbs like oregano, basil, mint and
rosemary. We also have small patches of gardens for other annual plants like turmeric, ginger, eggplant,
okra, string beans, corn, patola (luffa/loofah), upo (long melon/calabash gourds), kundol (white gourd
melon), string beans, tomatoes, watermelons and pineapples. And we plant peanuts and mung beans
interchangeably with rice.

Green leafy vegetables and a blooming kundol (white gourd melon

We have perennials like malunggay (moringa), red katuray (hummingbird tree), calamansi, dragon fruit,
cacao and coffee. We also have root crops such as sweet potatoes, cassavas and taros. We also have
wild vegetables around like saluyot (corchorus), native bitter gourd and singkamas (yam beans).

Aside from these, we’ve discovered adlay (Job’s tears), a tall plant that bears grains. Filipinos usually
use the grains to make beadworks. It is now being promoted by some non-government organizations as
an alternative to rice and corn. It can also be used as livestock feeds. A friend gave us some seeds for
planting.

So far we have a goat, some chickens (native and bantam), a couple of native pigs and ducks. We only
feed them with organic feeds. Although the chickens and ducks are free range, we still feed them every
now and then with corn grits and rice bran, a by-product of rice milling process. We buy the rice bran
from a neighbour for a very cheap price. The pigs get to enjoy boiled leaves of taro and sweet potato
and some vegetable peels. They also love eating fresh leaves of papaya, banana and ipil-ipil (white
leadtree). We also found out that madre de agua (Trichanthera gigantea) is also a good animal fodder
especially for goats, ducks and pigs. We’ve planted some already around the farm.