Busy as a BEE!

I'm very sorry for not posting any updates on our blog. I would like to announce that we're still very very active and still very much into organic farming. In fact, I think this time is the busiest we've ever been since we started the farm several years ago.

To make it up with you guys, we will be conducting FREE seminars and forums about organic farming. We will be doing this every first Saturday of the month. We will be teaching how to make organic fertilizers like fermented fruit extracts, fish amino acids, lactic acid bacteria, vermitea, and more. We will also be inviting friends who will share their technologies to us.

The venue will be at the AANI Herbal Center, inside Quezon Memorial Circle. For instructions on how to get there, call, 4972755. We will start at around 8am and finish at 12 noon.

Leave a comment here if you have questions or you want to suggest a topic to discuss during the seminar/forum.

SEE YOU THERE!!!

The making of Daily DOSE Farm

This video was taken 3 years ago when we were just starting Daily DOSE Farm. Here you will see the other parts of our farm and some weird activities that we do when we have, well, nothing to do. :) We hope you enjoy watching. :)

Thank you for watching!

Farm Tour

Here are some (class) pictures from the recent (08/09/2009) farm tour at our farm in Candelaria, Quezon. We will be posting more pics soon.

Click images for a larger view. More pics to come!!!

Organic Fruit Fly Attractant (video)

We've posted a picture about this before, now here's a video.

We hope you enjoy and learn something from this short film.

This is our very first video, but certainly not our last.

More videos on organic farming to come...

New Books!

I think the title should have been "Newly Acquired Books!"

These are recent additions to my collection of "Organic Agriculture, Environment, Soil Science, Entomology, Herbs, etc." related books (you get what I mean). 

I just finished reading the one in the middle.

My next read would be the one on the left.

The one on the right is a bit technical but still interesting.

There's been a lot of new additions to our collection since we first showed you our bookshelf in the January 2008 post entitled "Books!"

Now, if you need a specific book about organic farming and can't find it in our local book stores, feel free to post in anywhere on this site and I'll be happy to look it up for you.

Our New Product - Stevia Powder

What you're looking at is more than 2kg of stevia powder. It takes about 500 grams of fresh leaves to make 100 grams of dried leaves. It took us a more than 2 weeks and more than 10 kilos of fresh stevia leaves, taken from more than 100 stevia plants to produce what you're seeing in this picture. Now, let me ask you, how much would you sell these?

Winds of Change

Its been almost two years since we started Daily DOSE Farm and we've learned so much since then. There have been ups and downs. We've been so down that we even thought of putting this project to a halt, but we can't because the happiness it brings us is priceless. The feeling of harvesting your first crop, picking your first fruits, feeding the chicks, and learning from nature is truly a heart warming experience.

We started with salad greens; lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, etc. Then we tried growing chickens, then herbs. We have very few problems growing them all. We only have one big problem - TRANSPORT. We have no easy means of bringing our goods to the consumer. Ten crates of vegetables and herbs are too many to fit in a small car, we have to borrow my dad or brother's truck. But not anymore! We've solved this problem, not by buying a bigger car, but by converting bulky herbs into powder. We are now air-drying or herbs.

We are now focusing on culinary and medicinal herbs and gave the salad greens a bit of rest. Daily DOSE Farm is now planted with lots of stevia (stevia rebaudiana) accompanied by gotu kola (centella asiatica) and bordered with cat's whiskers (orthosiphon aristatus). There are plans of planting more medicinal herbs like moringa (malunggay), saluyot, sambong, turmeric, etc.