Entirely of Possibility: Not Just Another Model Farm

We've been doing farm visits to pick up techniques, ideas and inspiration for our own farm and last December, it was the Costales Nature Farm in Majayjay, Laguna which was our eye-opening teacher on organic farming. Two things impressed me about the farm. First, they made intensive use of the five hectare property filling almost every inch with vegetables in both open fields and greenhouses, fishponds, areas for raising ducks, pigs, rabbits, for vermicomposting, training, entertaining and hosting visitors. Second, as a proven money earner supplying greens to restaurants such as TGIF and Italianis, the farm has attracted investors, some of whom are OFWs who fund the construction of greenhouses which are named after them and get an ROI of around 20% to 30% a year.

The farm is located at the foot of Mt. Banahaw so it's blessed with gushing water. A model farm I hope to see soon and learn from is one that is not as lucky with the water source.

My dad and I enjoyed the freshest salad and food the most while my hubby and son enjoyed fishing and feeding the animals. We all enjoyed the weather, the break from Manila and the inspiring journey of a couple determined to make a 100% organic farm viable, successful and replicable.

From Costales, My husband, Jason bought a kilo of African night crawlers in a large pail which we hosted for a week in our home before Jason lugged them to the farm. I got excited feeding them leftover veggies and fruits imagining the worms gobbling them up like an incinerator. What cool pets but it turned out that we almost overfed them. I got scared thinking they'd escape from the pail but Jason told me not to worry because they'll die outside. True enough, we came home one day with a couple of dead worms on the floor at varying distances from the bucket showing how intrepid some of the worms were to attain freedom.