Many of us envisioned life here in the Philippines a little more rural than it has turned out to be for us. My wife, the Unofficial Cook and I are probably not going to be taking advantage of this place, La Hacienda, Batangas (just south of Manila for those folks not familiar with Luzon).
Usually the way a piece of rural property gets developed is chopping it up into the smallest possible lots and building the most expensive homes the market will bear on it. This results in the equivalent of a city suburb, without the city conveniences, coupled with the hardships of a long, economically and environmentally disastrous commute.
La Hacienda not only sells agriculturally viable plots of land, but promotes sustainable planting and growing by using viable but often ignored techniques, such as planting dwarf trees so improve yield per hectare. These sorts of invocations are well know by agricultural experts here, buy typically ignored by farmers insisting they do things the ‘old way’, and then complaining about how hard it is to make money providing the all important human need of food.
Well worth a visit, I believe, expect more on this venture.
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