By Randy V. Urlanda
Despite the discovery of making hives for honey bees in the middle of the 1800s by an American pastor and beekeeper who invented the mode... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
The lush Forest Wood Garden at the foot of Mount San Cristobal, a dormant volcano rising 4,820 feet beside the mystical Mount Banahaw, at... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
Children are vital to the nation’s future. To assure a healthy child, our maternal ancestors fed newly delivered mothers of yore a steami... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
The Philippines is the 9th largest rice producer in the world, accounting for 2.8 per cent of global rice production. Rice is the staple ... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
No other flower can lift someone’s spirits quite like the sunflowers. They are bright and cheery, and as warm and inviting as the sweet s... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
Reynaldo de Lara, one of thousand garlic farmers in Lubang Island in Occidental Mindoro, plants his four hectare farmland on the plains o... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
The name Mamburao, the capital of Western Mindoro, came from “May bulao!”, an expression of the Mangyan, the indigenous inhabitants of th... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
According to a popular legend, coffee was accidentally discovered by Kaldi, an Ethiopian goatherd in 850 AD while his normally docile goa... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
It is a well-known fact among lechoneros (pig roasters) in La Loma, the lechon capital of the Philippines, that the best pig to roast are... Read More...
By Randy V. Urlanda
Bamboo is deeply planted in the lives of Filipinos and its endless uses affect them from birth until death.
Rural midwives use the raz... Read More...
A woman turns to rooftop gardening to ease her loneliness from being away from her family.
By Randy V. Urlanda
Humans have grown plants atop structures sinc... Read More...