Going back to the land

I have always been proud of being a farmer’s daughter. Pop, although a surveyor by profession, is still actively farming and has dedicated several decades of his life to the land, as his father had been. He once told us that he helped clear the land that he farms until now, with his father, when he was 8 to 10 years old.

My niece Issa harvesting cherry tomatoes.

Reposting Green Resolutions for 2012

Note: I’m happy to have found another blog post that got lost together with the hacked site. Slightly different from the original Green Pen post, this version appeared at Manila Times on January 22, 2012. Here is the newpaper article.

This is the online greeting we sent everybody as 2012 came in.