Showing posts with label Department of Agriculture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Agriculture. Show all posts

Sunday, August 5, 2012

DIRECTORY FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE

COVER OF ORGANIC DIRECTORY


LAUNCHED NOV 6, 2012 DURING THE 9TH NOAC IN CEBU



POSTERS USED FOR PROMOTIONS


UPDATED 05 Feb 2013  

This for all to be part of.  Farmer, newbie, supplier, restaurant, store, seeds supplier, raw materials supplier, Veterinarian, Agriculturist...Big or Small!  The simpler your product/service is, the more we need to find you.

Please, let us all help one another to compile this very useful guide.  Complete and  share this data sheet with others.    Follow the link below and be counted :)

FILL OUT THIS ONLINE DATA SHEET for the directory, Organic Agriculture

Malaki o maliit....dapat lahat tayo ay kasama dito!  Please share with others :)

The historical initial launching copies were done for the 9th NOAC, Nov 6-8 in Cebu..  Printed and online directory for organic agriculture, for everyone, anything and everything.

We are now preparing for the updated issue!   JOIN!

FREE to register.  Distribution nationwide for FREE.  UPDATES WILL BE PRINTED SOON.

Friday, February 3, 2012

SOAP Goes to HKG

FREE SEMINARS: Organic Seminars, Mar 10 & 11, Hongkong

FOR: Agriculture Livelihood Projects (ALP), but will be open to all to join

MARCH 10 (HKG)
Open to consultations with small groups Contact number 90102198 or 61296301 for appointment.

MARCH 11 In Hong Kong for a group, Agricultural Livelihood Project, but will be open to all.  Venue changed to accomodate more people. PHILIPPINE CONSULATE GENERAL, 14/F, UNITED CENTRE, #95 QUEENSWAY ADMIRALTY, HONGKONG,SAR. Contact number 90102198 or 61296301.

Overview of Likasaka
9am: Pastured Chicken (Rey B. Itchon, DVM)
1 pm: Rabbit Raising for Meat Production (ASEC Dante Delima)
 OPEN FORUM with Sec Proceso Alcala


Please email spreadorganicagriculture@yahoo.com with subject: HONGKONG.  Let us hear from you to spread the word better :)

The Joy of Urban Farming

Lucky are the people named Joy....they can use their name for taglines :)  Like in the case of the project of VM Joy Belmonte of QC, very apt...there is indeed joy in farming!

We were at the City Hall for a meeting.  After a quick and easy discussion of minds, Joie Faustino of DA and I were invited to visit the base of The Joy of Urban Farming.  It is strategically located inside the Quezon Memorial Circle.  Just after the restaurant complex, by the East Ave entrance of the newly renovated park under the guidance of the world renowned Palafox Associates.

The moment you walk past this sign, you thought you were lost and got to the Butterfly Garden.  Transported to another world, and you are just across the Quezon City Hall!  Of course that is what gardens sans chemicals are....it brings back the butterflies, dragon flies, lady bugs etc.

Very pleasant staff greet you.  It is manned weekdays, 8am to 5pm.  Everyone is welcome to visit and learn from the staff and gardeners.  They share and teach from waste segregation, composting, making fertilizers, planting and taking care vegetable plots.  They do it for FREE and you even go home with seedlings to start you off!
 This will be a great visit for someone who wants to start but doesn't know what are the 1st steps to take.  here you can just go and browse first and ask around before you decide how to design your urban edible garden.  Look, they even have Strawberry.
You can even buy vegetables here....and you will be encouraged after you see how they are grown and prices are very low too.  This is almost a drive thru vegetable market :)
This mission is to:

1) To have an alternative source of food and hunger alleviation
2) Encourage farming and to answer the nutrition needs
3) Give additional livelihood
4) Help care for the environment
Looking forward to going around the urban gardens in Quezon City.  Want to come join?