When I think about organic farming, I can't help but look back on the one-of-my-many unique experiences in Negros (I feel like I really learned a lot about organic agri thanks to ATI-DAR last year and the desire to eat healthy slash growing my own food is kinda rubbing on me hehe). As I said before, they said that the whole island has the most organic farms in the Philippines and it is vying to be the organic capital of Southeast Asia. The Agricultural Training Institute of the Philippine Department of Agriculture (ATI-DAR) took us to Bacolod on this trip and we made our way by car to the Penalosa Farms. Mr. Penalosa's style of telling us about the organic journey was to let us discover it by ourselves and literally had us interacting with every plant, animal and material in his farm. It felt like I was back in school during our brief stay LOL. He made us understand the intricacies of integrated farming, that everything is intertwined and that one should really understand the different kinds of plants (and everything's special place in the cycle) before we even start having grandoise notions of having our own farm. It was fun and definitely not as easy as Farmville but doable and can be replicated :)
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