Where to Get Molasses?

This is a frequently asked question  I get this about 5x a week :)

Here are leads:

1) Agri/poultry/farm stores that sell feed ingredients

2) Market areas where there are horses in the area (because it is used to make their grass palatable)

3) Feedmills, they also sell ingredients

4) Sugar centrals

5) Other agri/farm/poultry supply enterprises

6) Ask salesmen of veterinary/feeds.  They have a network of connections.

7) Other organic farmers

If you think of other leads, please post :)

Price varies...of course, closer to the source, it is cheaper.

Sacred Heart Parish in Kamuning

Fr. Ben Beltran of Sacred Heart in Sct Ybardolaza/Kamuning is looking for clean safe products that they may distribute through their parishioners.

Please contact them directly.  Will be a good boost for your business instead of doing house to house deliveries in that area.

Sweet Tuba, FOOD Magazine March 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?

SEMINAR: Pastured Chickens, Mar 11, Hong Kong

WHEN: 11 March 2012

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

WHERE: FILIPINO WORKERS RESOURCE CENTRE, 650 2/F POST OFFICE BUILDING, CHEUNG SHA WAN ROAD, CHEUNG SHA WAN, KOWLOON. contact number 90102198 or 61296301.

WHAT: Pastured Chicken by Rey B. Itchon, DVM

We are finalizing additional speakers to join us to make it a whole day event.  WIll keep this note updated.

SEMINAR: Understanding Your Organic Fertilizers, Mar 3

SEMINAR: Understanding Your Organic Fertilizers, Mar 3



WHAT: "Pagsasakang may Konsyensa"
              "Getting to Know Fermented Liquid Organic Fertilizers Better"
                by Dr. Blesilda Calub (UPLB_


               "Principles and Practices of Organic Fertilizer Use"
                by Dr. Wilfredo C. Cosico (UPLB)

• What are the different fertilizers
• Why does it work
•  What is in it
• What should you use

              "Vermiculture" by Pamela Henares (Buro Buro Spring Farms)

• Why vermiculture
• What to prepare
• How and what to feed 
• Composting
• Harvesting
• Usage

WHEN:  Mar 3, 2012, Saturday, 8am-5pm

WHERE: PRRM Conference Room, 56 Mother Ignacia cor Dr. Lazcano, QC (near Capitol Medical Center)

INCLUDES:

• Materials,
• Lunch and 2 snacks

FEE: PHP1500 if paid until March 2.  Walk-in participants, PHP2000
        

REGISTRATION:

• Pay to Solraya Enterprises, BPI, C/A 3535-8057-24. 
• After deposit, email spreadorganicagriculture@yahoo.com with: Name, Date of Deposit. 
• We send you registration forms and email back to complete registration. 
• Bring deposit slip during seminar day.

For questions, please email spreadorganicagriculture@yahoo.com
or call (0917) 847-2639