Oyster Mushroom

 We are planning to build 1000 sq. feet mushroom house. So excited witht his new venture.

Dragonfruit Ice Cream

 

Dragon Fruit Plant Infestation

 When you are hungry in the wild, you forage food. This is also they same with the rats, bats and or any insects that can heavily damage the dragon fruit fruit.

Here are some examples

Photo credited:
 FB member in Dragon Fruit Philippines

The solution for this, is to wrap the fruit with a fruit bag. It is like a net ....

Dragon Fruit Harvest 6/29/21

Our Dragon fruit plant has few rows that is 19 months old. We did not plant it together.

Harvesting early in the morning before everyone having their breakfast. Fresh from the farm for our loyal consumers. Bees are busy early this morning catching flowers - pollinating to increase our yield. Oh my! Is that 1 kg for one fruit? Thank you Lord for many blessings. Naa nami pangpalit ug bulad ug ginamos #Organic #organicallygrown #pca #pcafarm #dragonfruit #thinkcleanthinkgreenandeatorganic

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My purpose of this webpage is to reach many farmers who love BEES and organic growing..

Concoctions Used at the Farm

 ORGANIC CONCOCTION- bio inputs… culture the micro organisms,

Fermented plant juice or FPJ  Concoction

use for fertilizer for growing the plants (Nitrogen)

Kangkong, Alugbati, camote tops, ubod sa kawayan, bani or banana trunks, green leaves, herbs.. Why? Getting growth hormone. Dali lang magtubo unya naa na sa tanom gikan ang growth hormone. 

Ingredients:

3 kg mix na veggies cut into one inch

3 kg molasses

Procedure

• Pick the leaves between 6-8am (important ang time)

• Cut one inch

• Put in balde or banga and Mix it

• Linisan sa ibabaw na balde (diha sa rim aron limpyo)

• Cover with manila paper, secure with the rubber band, label and date and name

• 7 days ang harvest

Uses:

2 tbsp in fpj

1 liter unchlorinated water

Or 2 lata sardines in 16 liter sprayer for plants

Seedling tray- diligan When Transplanting the plant- diligan  again. 

FFJ- fermented fruit juice Concoction - natural taste enhancer

3 kg Molasses

3 kg -Fruit- all sweet fruit

Banana na hinog (cardava or binangay or tundan), hinog papaya, Calabasa na hinog

This is the taste enhancer sa bunga and leaves of the plant. Mura ug ma sweet ang fruit ng dragon fruit or any fruiting plants

Procedure in making the concoction:

• Washed fruits

• Include the skin ng fruits, cut into pieces

• Mix in the banga or any container like balde

• Cover with manila paper.. Do no write on top sa manila paper to avoid ink contamination

• Label it

• Harvest in 7 days 

• Then Strained the liquid.. Note: Take the remaining solid and put it in the soil directly in the garden or in sama sa food ng chicken

Dosage for spraying the plant:

2 tbsp ffj liquid

1 liter unchlorinated water

Or 2 lata sardines in 16 liter sprayer for plants

Where to spray?

Fruiting plants or kanang mao jud sugod ug bunga- spray ffj in fruit to make the fruit taste sweeter. Spray in leaves only in early morning or late afternoon.  Spray at the bottom of the leaves. The reason for that is that the stomata of the leaves are open and readily absorbed by the plants. 

Spray it when the fruit is coming out. 

Spraying on different days or mixing it with the other concoctions.

IMO/ Indigenous microorganism concoction

• Use in compost pit and source of beneficial microorganisms

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Cooked rice clean or bahaw.. 

Molasses

Process:

Banga or plastic or kawayan- tanggalan ang ibabaw and put  ¼ ra jud  sa lalagyan ang kanin.. Huwag punoin… kanin is to attract the amag. 

Manila paper and seal with rubber band

Or put in bamboo area or under the tree that has plenty of leaves

Purpose: To attract amag After 3-5 days and check and open. If amag is orange, white yellow or green. Those are good and harvest it… If there is Black amag is removed and thrown away. 

After harvesting...

Weigh the amag if 1 kilo then mix with 1 kilo molasses in pail and mix it

Cover in manila paper and rubber and label it date of fermentation and date of harvest. 

Harvest 7 days

Purpose: Good in baboyan - removed the smell in piggery. Good for disinfectant… and also good for the chicken (I guess)

Good in compost pit to pabulokpabulok faster na mga leaves… it will take 3 weeks

Beneficial micro organism in soil. Vegetable in seedling tray. Spray IMO and so the micro organisms is already in

Spray also in transplanting the plants 

Ratio

2 TBSP

1 liter of unchlorinated water

Drench in soil or dilig sa lupa…purpose paramihin ang micro organisms

Fish Amino Acids/FAA or Kuhol Amino Acids

-flowering and make the leaves green

We need amino acids

Fermented 

Materials”

Fish  mas madugo ang isda ay mas maganda. Can use tinai of the fish… it should be limpyo.. May takip at hindi madapuan ng langaw

1 kilo fish

1 kg molasses

Cut in one inch and put it balde.

Cover in manila paper, rubber band and label it

Date of harvest is 15 days… - it is 15 days because it tooka while to let the micro organisms came out from the bones

Strain it

When to spray: it triggers to fruiting vegetables and so this is for flowering…

So this is foliar fertilizer and spray to the plant to force flowering

Also in lettuce and pechay

Dosage:

2 TBSP

1 liter of unchlorinated water

LActic Acid Bacteria/LAB

Oriental Herbal Nutrients (OHN): or Caphos

(Note, not a vaccine replacement)

• This will serves as fungicides and pesticide to plants. Insecticides and replellant

Licorice or cinnamon can be used too...

Recipe Ingredients: 

• 1 kgGarlic, 

• 1 kg ginger, 

• 200 grams molasses or muscovado sugar

• 2.2 liters coco vinegar natural 

• 200 grams chili

• 100 grams na panyawan

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First process:

Clean the ginger (do not remove the skin) and cut it into one inch.

Garlic remove the skin

Put in the pail

Mix 200 grams muscovado sugar

Close Manila paper and sealed it with tape and wrote label

Date of fermentation

Date of opening is three days from the start

Harvest in three (3) days

After three days… remove the cover 

Pour 2.2 liters coconut vinegar

-200 grams sili cut in one inch

-100 grams in panyawan cut one inch

Mix it again

Cover it and Seal it again… date of fermentation is 10 days

Harvest after 10 days… 

This is insect repellant

Dosage of spraying:

2 TBSP mix with 1 liter of unchlorinated water

And spray when there are insects… if insects are so bad make it double dose.

Calphos

Egg shell - remove the white thing inside the eggshell

1 kg egg shell

1 liter coco vinegar

Crush the eggshell and sangag na light brown. Color (huwag sunogin). Cool it down.

Pour the vinegar in the balde and slowly drop the crushed eggshells in the balde.. And it should be lalabas ang bubbles and when maubos na ang bubbles.. Seal it with manila paper and tape

Indigenous Calcium

Date of fermentation and harvest after 20 days…

Use for flowering but the main purpose when the flowers come in .. dapat malakas ang kapit ng flowers …malig on ang sanga and even pechay..

Dosage for spraying: 2 TBSP mix with 1 liter of unchlorinated water

Calphos using bones from animals or Kuphos

Bukog ng baboy: clean it.. No laman only bones lang jud.

Isugba ang bokog medyo brown lang (ni.. Cool it down

Then

3 kg of bones 

27 liters of coco vinegar

Ilagay sa balde and lagay ang suka.

Cover it with manila paper and seal.

Harvest it after 30 days

Purpose: It is calcium

Dosage: 2 TBSP and mix with 1 liter of unchlorinated water and spray to the plants

We can use shells from kohol  and even shells from tahong and the same ingredients in eggs.

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Dosage: give twice a week

• 2 TBSP per liter for chickens 

• 2 lata sardines in 16 liter sprayer for plants

Brief Farm History

 The farm was established back in the late 1940s when my grandparents, Cristita and Apolinario Gamayot, moved down to Mindanao from Pilar, Bohol creating a legacy founded on the bounty of the land.  The farm still has a number of features from that time.  You can find a 60 year old plumeria/Kalachuchi on our land and see the 75 years old ancestral home built using hardwood like tugas and bayong wood. We even have the old jar that my grandmother used to ferment her vinegar and a few items she brought from Bohol. 

Starting with my grandmother’s backyard vegetable garden, the farm has been free of pesticides.  This may be one of the reasons that she lived 94 years.  Over those years, the area has been home to hundreds of free range chickens and a number of cows and goats. The farm has also planted fruit trees like mango, coconut, cacao, guava, biasong and jackfruit with tons of root crops grown like cassava and sweet potato.

The land was split back in 2000, with my father and mother planting coconut, cacao, corn and mung bean to add to the diversity of the crops grown. My family came to own the portion with the ancestral home and my initial plan was to develop the land by planting a mango orchard.  Today 40 of these trees survive along with some of the coconut and cacao from my parents. 

In 2019,a large portion of the farm was converted to grow more than 2200 dragon fruit vines to take advantage of the high value of that crop.  We planted more or less than 100 malunggay trees, papayas and different kinds of herbs and flowers  around the perimeter of the dragon fruit. Hoping to deter pests while inviting friendly bugs like bees.