May 20 is World Bee Day! Bees deserve to be recognized for how hard they work for our planet as its primary pollinator and their role in the biodiversity which humans depend on for survival.
Rose Barcena creates pillows from kapok fiber in her spare time. (Jerome Sagcal)
A row of houses surrounds the front of a cement company in Trece Martires City, Cavite. It is in one of these humble housings provided by the company where Rose Barcena, her husband, and her three children consider
Mac Bergonio, owner of Los Pepes Farm. (Jerome Sagcall)
Life doesn’t always go as planned. Mac Bergonio wanted to become a seaman for a very long time. But in an unexpected turn of events, Mac is now the owner of Los Pepes Farm, a stingless bee farm in Indang, Cavite. With the help of his wife, M
A basket of freshly harvested passion fruit. (Jerome Sagcal)
Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis) is usually eaten by scooping out the pulp. The pulp, however, is only a small portion of the fruit, so most of the passion fruit is actually not used. The big remainder of the fruit is its flesh, which
Freshly harvested ibuli fruits. (Jerome Sagcal)
The tree of ibuli (Cubilia cubili) is now a protected tree in the town of Pakil, Laguna after the local government approved an ordinance declaring ibuli as the town’s flagship species for conservation.
Local residents often call ibuli Pakil’s own