to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy… and to laugh along the way
If each of us learns to become a faithful steward of the small corner of creation entrusted to us, then perhaps the future we dream of – a healthier planet, stronger communities, and lives lived in greater harmony with nature – is not an impossible dream after all.
The workshop took us one step further. It challenged us to think differently. Like many people, I had always imagined permaculture to be simply another approach to farming – an organic way of growing vegetables or raising fruit trees. By the second day, I realized how incomplete that understanding had been.
It’s a long, wonderful process all the way from growing cacao trees to harvesting, fermenting, drying, roasting, winnowing, grinding, (refining, tempering), and molding. And what better way to learn it than to experience the process first-hand in the farm.
Mother-daughter pair, Wit and Bianca Holganza, are the duo behind the production of WIT’S Sweets & Savouries, a local granola brand whose mixtures all contain cacao nibs from the Holganza’s family farm in Davao.
My daughter, Bianca, had her birthday recently. To celebrate it, my wife and I brought her to Davao Oriental, a province not yet well-known for
2017 is ready to say adieu. Leaving us many poignant memories; of laughter and tears; of joy and sorrow; of spills and thrills; of trials
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