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From a commercial farmer to a natural farmer
Converting a commercial farm to a natural farm is not an easy task. But for sure, it's worth the effort. Our first days of conversion: I used one building inside our property and the Mahogany area for...
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Hands on farm work
Our Farmers mixing ingredients for the indoor area of the pigs. It's made of Coco Coir, sawdust, carbonized rice hull (CRH), soil, effective microorganisms, and a dash of salt. This creates a healthy,...
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Our initial livestock
Pot Belly Pigs bought from Animal Farm Store in Star City. Yes, they were sold with ribbons:) The sow has given birth to three female piglets! Watch out for the photos of the piglets. They are free to...
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Our first set of vegetable crops
Here are some pictures of Crusor's first crops which were mostly fed to the pigs as their snacks. We prepared home-made concoctions for the plant nutrients such as Effective Microorganisms (EM),...
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Free Ranged / Pastured Pigs
Happy pigs doing their natural ways. Four months into ranging and neither a single mortality nor sickness hit them. One thing I noticed is that they don't squeal for food - which means they are...
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Expanding the Herb Area
Lemon Grass, Thai Basil, and Lagundi. We started with just two cuttings of Lemon grass, thirty from-seed Thai Basil and three cuttings of Lagundi. You can see from this post that this plot of land...
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Welcome to the world, Piglets!
Babies! Didn't know that Pot Belly piglets were that small. It looked like a big rat! This was our first time delivering piglets in a natural way and luckily, we did not encounter any problems like...
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Concrete Raised Beds
It was trial and error in building this plot. We had to choose the right size of rubble to be stacked in order for the structure to be stable. So far, no problems were encountered in this area. It...
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Our Feed Garden
January 2011 March 2011 August 2011 Indigofera Flamengia Rensonii and Indigofera It was in the summer months of Febuary 2011 when we planted from seeds these food for the animals on an estimated total...
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PNFI Natural Farming Seminar
PNFI Farming seminar in Department of Agriculture Quezon City The true blue farmer himself, Mr. Dante S. Delima Ms. Teresa G. Perez - Saniano of Earthkeepers This is included in the seminar. A...
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Conditioning our Piglets
Since our first batch of pastured pigs was successful, we opted to get our second batch of pigs from EJB farms. Being on concrete floor during the first two months, their natural instinct showed up...
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Our Feed Pond (Duckweed+Ducks)
First we have the feed garden now we have the feed pond - An accidental feed pond that used to be Bio-Gas for our swine manure. It's not operational now so we just let the rain water fill it up. It's...
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Happy Pigs
BeforeAfter. We made an entrance to the ranging areaScouting their new pastured landHappy pigs in their natural habitat
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Feed Making 101 - Pig starter
50kgs of D1 (Darak)10kg of US Soya7kg Copra MealThen add the greens Rensonii, Flamengia, Indigofera, Mulberry, Ipil-Ipil, MalungayThen add Duckweed. The total weight of the greens is 15kg100ml IMO and...
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Free range Pastured White Layers
Our White chicken layers Please wait for our updated pictures and videos soon :)They ate all the grass so they are now ready to be transferred to their new forage area:) There's still an abundance of...
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