Organic Farming in the Philippines: SAMAR| Growing Healthy Food From Wastes 🌱 No Synthetic Chemicals

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:02][music] [music] >> Welcome to La Mesa Farm. My place is so peaceful. Makes me want to stay here forever.

[00:00:31]Having a farm makes me feel safe and living in a tiny house makes me feel like I'm always on vacation.

[00:00:40]But there's still a part in my heart wanting to explore the world. Still want to see the other side of the world because I believe there's a unique beauty in every corner.

[00:00:52]What I really dream of is visit an organic farm all around the world. But since I cannot afford yet, let's rather explore here in our region first. So today I will take you to an organic farm in Marabut, Samar. So let's go.

[00:01:17]So this is San Juanico [music] Bridge, guys. It used to be the longest bridge here in the Philippines.

[00:01:24]>> [singing] >> It [music] connects two provinces, Samar and Leyte. The story behind [music] it is actually very romantic.

[00:01:34]But I don't have time to tell you because it's a very [music] long story.

[00:01:46]So we are here at Promised Land Integrated Farm. They are located in Marabut, Samar. What if I told you chicken manure here turns into fish food, pig feed, and even grows more food?

[00:02:00]Yes, even poop makes money here. On this farm in Samar, [music] nothing gets thrown away. Not leftovers, not waste, and not even poop.

[00:02:12]Let's go and have a tour and learn from them >> [music] >> on how they grow food out of waste.

[00:02:34]So these are the [music] food that they grow, guys. They have a lot of fruit trees and [music] here's one of them.

[00:02:43]Uh it is called jackfruit.

[00:02:45]Ate the jackfruit. [music] Most of their income are from jackfruit.

[00:02:50]And they also have pineapples which is very [music] sweet. We tried it. And here is the passion fruit.

[00:03:00]They also [music] have guava, guys, which is very nutritious.

[00:03:05]They also have mangoes and bananas.

[00:03:07][music] I like how organized their farm is. They have [music] many huts and each one of them has um a purpose. Just like this one, [music] it's a farm tools. And this uh next one is for concoctions.

[00:03:31]They also [music] use a natural mulch here.

[00:03:35]It's a rice straw and I haven't seen [music] any plastic mulch which is very good.

[00:03:43]So they grow different kinds of [music] veggies and look at the mulch, guys. They use um banana stem or we [music] call it bunny. They just chopped it into smaller pieces and we can also >> [singing] >> just cut it [music] into pieces. So aside from it retains moisture and hydrates [music] the plant even though it's hot it also give nutrients [music] to the plants as time goes by.

[00:04:19]So this is where um they breed their black soldier fly larvae.

[00:04:24]And [music] if you want to know more about it, just watch this video.

[00:04:30]So this is a free food for chickens and fish [music] and then their waste goes to the azolla since it is high in nitrogen which is what the azolla needs.

[00:04:46]If you want to know more about azolla, watch this video.

[00:04:55]So they are also growing >> [music] >> broilers for chicken meat and they have native pigs. They also have um [music] the hybrid ones.

[00:05:06]But it's good that they have this.

[00:05:08]They also [music] have this crayfish.

[00:05:12]Wow, this is really amazing. I really want to [music] learn on how to grow this um crayfish because they taste like lobster according to them. So [singing] what they feed [music] to their crayfish is the black soldier fly larvae. [singing] So they also have fish [music] here.

[00:05:31]It's tilapia and koi.

[00:05:35]I love tilapia.

[00:05:36]>> [music] >> Best when deep fried. So this farm is still buying some feeds but they mix [music] um the feed with azolla and black soldier fly larvae.

[00:05:49]But surely if ever borders will close, this farm can still sustain because they already have what they need. They just need to [music] expand it which is doable in their case. What I am very interested with is >> [music] >> um the crayfish. I really want to learn in growing them.

[00:06:12]And the black soldier fly larvae because it's the key to success [music] in making your own feed.

[00:06:23]So if you are from Samar >> [music] >> and you're looking for an organic farm where you can buy vegetables, fruits, and animal products follow their page so you can easily [music] contact them.