On May 28, 2009, the Honorable Arthur C. Yap, Secretary of the Philippine Department of Agriculture, will meet with approximately 100 farmers involved in the Cordillera Heirloom Rice Project. The “Highland Rice Terraces Farmers Forum” will take place at the Mount Data Lodge, Bauko, Mt....
An on-site inspection of the terrace that will be certified as organic for growing native heirloom rice took place May 18-22 in the Cordillera. The inspection and certification process is being done under the auspices of the Organic Certification Center of the Philippines (OCCP)...
The buzz in the market is all about going organic with local products. On May 8, Vicky attended the Luzon Consultation on the Proposed Organic Agriculture Bills at the Agricultural Training Institute, Diliman, Quezon City. Although this is the policy side of organic certification, it...
Next stop for Vicky was PhilRice and a workshop on Participatory Impact Pathway Analysis (PIPA). The 3-day workshop was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in collaboration with IRRI-PhilRice. It was attended by over 40 stakeholders from across the country who have been working...
Monday 27 April 2009 Although only a few miles from Tabuk, the landslide blocking the road was still not cleared by Sunday afternoon. When Vicky and her party finally opted to catch a bus toward Mountain Province, more than 300 people remained stranded on the Lubuagan...
Sunday, April 26, 2009 I just returned from an East Coast trip where I attended the Stony Field Farm Entrepreneurship Institute at the University of New Hampshire and then went on to a tradeshow for Associated Buyers, Eighth Wonder's distributor to independent grocery and natural food...
Mary Hensley’s niece, Hope Morris, visited the Philippines and the project for two weeks during February. Hope, a budding commercial photographer living in New York City, is no stranger to the project. Hope took all of the product photos in the online store. During her two...
Eighth Wonder Heirloom Rice is now available online! Come check out our product line of heirloom rice from the terraces. We have four unique and wonderful varieties of staple rice plus three rare varieties of colored sticky or dessert rice. Eighth Wonder's gift boxes and samplers...