FOOD FOREST TOUR | Permaculture Farming in the Philippines
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The food forest is one
The food forest is one of the cheapest and most sustainable systems that can be used in farming. This helps to maintain the good quality of the soil and the environment. This is known in the field of Permaculture.
This food forest is located in Alamada, Cotabato, Philippines and permaculture farming is being practiced in this site.
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Hello, today is March 29, 2021 and I will take you on a tour in our food forest.
We are going to start here at our farm house where the one in front of it is the mulberry which I pruned last week and now it has buds and are having flowers as well.
At the back of this house is a coffee area. Around 200 trees of arabica coffee were planted, and we were able to harvest last December. Now they have green berries again.
Next to the coffee are the cacao trees that are already quite old. it hasn’t been pruned until now. We also have a newly planted cacao seedlings from your DA. The problem with cacao is, it is very demanding for maintenance.
We also have jackfruit, guyabano, banana, rambutan and many other fruit trees.
Here on the east side of the house there are more coconut trees so copra is always done here. The price of copra is pretty okay now because it's already 35-38 pesos per kilo, it's a bit higher. Before, it was only 15 pesos per kilo, very cheap. has not yet been able to recoup the cost of copra.
Here is the road to the river which is also connected to the farm-to-market road.
There, those weeds are tall because most of the time, we just do trimming. As much as possible, we do not spray herbicides.
There on the hill is vegetable garden that we will also go to later on.
The house is there, and we are going to the vegetable garden. It is at the top of the hill because that the area is more exposed to sunlight which is more suitable for vegetables. Because vegetables need direct sunlight especially for those which produce fruits such as cucumber and eggplant.
We need to pass through that fallen bamboo. I asked someone to trim this hill of bamboo because it is close to the cash crops and its shade is interfering with the growth of plants. It is also one of our sources of bamboo shoots, but it's not their season yet. It is delicious when cooked with coconut milk.
That is a area which we do not disturb much, so there are still monitor lizards and pythons living there. Recently, I even saw small green parrots there, but there were coffee and cacao and root crops planted in that area.
We are heading there. There are also coconuts in these area, because they serve as canopy plants.
And here in this area, there are many "badjang" or elephant ears. This was popular during the (COVID-19) lockdown but they have no much benefits and they are not edible. Only birds could eat their fruits.
This one is like an insulin plant. Here are more "bajang". Before, there were more of them which were even bigger. We cut them so the leftover flesh grows again.
There downhill, there's a creek that we'll go to later.
There, that is the vegetable garden.
[Permaculture is one the good agricultural practices and it is sustainable farming method which is often used in homestead. It id also helpful in hillside management. Permaculture design is one of the important aspect to look into especially in permaculture gardening.]
The cucumber are already flowering. My brother said that this is only 35 days old. He's the one who takes care this garden. The best thing about cucumber is that you can harvest it in two months. These ones are a bottle gourd, they are still small. This area is where the next batch of cucumbers to be planted. At this side is the sponge gourd (patola).
That's the Elementary School here near the farm and next to the vegetable garden.
Down there, the farm house where we came from earlier.
That's the creek and that's the area that is prone to landslides that is why we don't disturb it much so it has become a jungle. Come, let's go.
Here we are at the creek at the bottom of the hill and this is the area that always erodes especially when there is a flood and it washes out the soil on the side of the creek.
Up there, there are "zero maintenance" root crops such as purple yam and lesser yam.
[This is a permaculture farming in the Philippines.]
We get big purple yams here and the best thing about it is that you just plant them and then come back to them when it's harvest time, so we called them zero maintenance crops.
This is the tugi or lesser yam or we call it "tam-is". It's delicious but it's hard to harvest because there are thorns around its flesh, like barbed wires wrapped around it. That is why my father is the one who digs because he is more expert in picking lesser yams.
There are also taros here. we call it "palawan" or "karlang" in Cebuano. And there are large trees.
It's noon and we have to go home for lunch. There is Jerald, my brother.
Thank you for watching and see on the next video. Bye.
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#PermacultureFarming
This food forest is located in Alamada, Cotabato, Philippines and permaculture farming is being practiced in this site.
________
Hello, today is March 29, 2021 and I will take you on a tour in our food forest.
We are going to start here at our farm house where the one in front of it is the mulberry which I pruned last week and now it has buds and are having flowers as well.
At the back of this house is a coffee area. Around 200 trees of arabica coffee were planted, and we were able to harvest last December. Now they have green berries again.
Next to the coffee are the cacao trees that are already quite old. it hasn’t been pruned until now. We also have a newly planted cacao seedlings from your DA. The problem with cacao is, it is very demanding for maintenance.
We also have jackfruit, guyabano, banana, rambutan and many other fruit trees.
Here on the east side of the house there are more coconut trees so copra is always done here. The price of copra is pretty okay now because it's already 35-38 pesos per kilo, it's a bit higher. Before, it was only 15 pesos per kilo, very cheap. has not yet been able to recoup the cost of copra.
Here is the road to the river which is also connected to the farm-to-market road.
There, those weeds are tall because most of the time, we just do trimming. As much as possible, we do not spray herbicides.
There on the hill is vegetable garden that we will also go to later on.
The house is there, and we are going to the vegetable garden. It is at the top of the hill because that the area is more exposed to sunlight which is more suitable for vegetables. Because vegetables need direct sunlight especially for those which produce fruits such as cucumber and eggplant.
We need to pass through that fallen bamboo. I asked someone to trim this hill of bamboo because it is close to the cash crops and its shade is interfering with the growth of plants. It is also one of our sources of bamboo shoots, but it's not their season yet. It is delicious when cooked with coconut milk.
That is a area which we do not disturb much, so there are still monitor lizards and pythons living there. Recently, I even saw small green parrots there, but there were coffee and cacao and root crops planted in that area.
We are heading there. There are also coconuts in these area, because they serve as canopy plants.
And here in this area, there are many "badjang" or elephant ears. This was popular during the (COVID-19) lockdown but they have no much benefits and they are not edible. Only birds could eat their fruits.
This one is like an insulin plant. Here are more "bajang". Before, there were more of them which were even bigger. We cut them so the leftover flesh grows again.
There downhill, there's a creek that we'll go to later.
There, that is the vegetable garden.
[Permaculture is one the good agricultural practices and it is sustainable farming method which is often used in homestead. It id also helpful in hillside management. Permaculture design is one of the important aspect to look into especially in permaculture gardening.]
The cucumber are already flowering. My brother said that this is only 35 days old. He's the one who takes care this garden. The best thing about cucumber is that you can harvest it in two months. These ones are a bottle gourd, they are still small. This area is where the next batch of cucumbers to be planted. At this side is the sponge gourd (patola).
That's the Elementary School here near the farm and next to the vegetable garden.
Down there, the farm house where we came from earlier.
That's the creek and that's the area that is prone to landslides that is why we don't disturb it much so it has become a jungle. Come, let's go.
Here we are at the creek at the bottom of the hill and this is the area that always erodes especially when there is a flood and it washes out the soil on the side of the creek.
Up there, there are "zero maintenance" root crops such as purple yam and lesser yam.
[This is a permaculture farming in the Philippines.]
We get big purple yams here and the best thing about it is that you just plant them and then come back to them when it's harvest time, so we called them zero maintenance crops.
This is the tugi or lesser yam or we call it "tam-is". It's delicious but it's hard to harvest because there are thorns around its flesh, like barbed wires wrapped around it. That is why my father is the one who digs because he is more expert in picking lesser yams.
There are also taros here. we call it "palawan" or "karlang" in Cebuano. And there are large trees.
It's noon and we have to go home for lunch. There is Jerald, my brother.
Thank you for watching and see on the next video. Bye.
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#PermacultureFarming
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