Rural Life Center

From March 19-23 four of the girls and I spent some time at a renewable farming technologies farm.  It's really pretty amazing stuff. The joy of seeing these technologies in action is thinking ahead to potentially putting some or all of them into practice one day in a foreign country.

 The short story of what we did: watched vermiculture in process and learned ways of implementation for various aspects of farming.  We looked at goat raising, which included milking, castrating, debudding, and of course, feeding and housing.  Finally we looked at small gardening utilizing composting in the same area with seed preservation.

There were many more areas to learn from then we had time to do!

The mountains! This farm is actually in the foot hills of Mt. Apo.

debudding! Cauterizing the buds of the horns.

Juni had rhythm like no body's business!

Vermiculture using rabbit maure.

And, a little gardening, but preparing the place for the compost first.

Of course we enjoyed spending time around the people who are running it (part of a Baptist Mission) and really enjoyed a break into the country.  Ahhh.  We did our fair share of sleeping as our bodies took the opportunity to really let down and relax.

Enjoy the pictures!!  Also, on the right hand side bar there is a blog called "The Silver Lining" she also went on this trip and has a good post about it.  I'd encourage you to check it out!