Now, I forgot what was my first, second and third. I should have written this blog several months ago. Okay, why am I into farming? Since childhood, I thought of the empty rice paddies as a sea. Oh, how I love to swim, errr actually crawling, pretending I am a swimmer. Then, harvest those edible snails for dinner. T’was yummy! Or, during midmorning, I would harvest ‘kangkong’ for my late lola Lourdes’ salad. I don’t eat it though. Or late in the afternoon, would climb tamarind trees and at sun dusk, to chase around a chicken for my dinner. At night, will have a get together with my cousins around the “sulo” (lamp), then would clean our noses with those black soot. After which to lay down my tired body in the pretty cold bamboo floor that you wouldn’t want to get up the following day. I also experienced eating frog, dog and bat...yaiikkkss. Oh, well how I missed rural life. Paucity, simplicity, stillness of life.
That was every summer in childhood days. But, while growing up things change as I get distracted with the niceties of this ever changing world. Music, televisions, magazines, friends, travel, etc. Although, I’m into city living, but there were instances in my life that lead me into farming. I just go with the flow. That’s my problem, I strike anywhere. I don’t really know exactly what I like. Okay, okay...my present job is demanding that I should be all around like Jack of all trade, master of none. That’s the prize when you’re into a supra-level position. Now, I find myself into coconut, abaca, cassava, mango, cacao and bamboo. There’s also prawn, milkfish and sex-reversed tilapia. But, bamboo, that’s it! Got a brain child here! Then, I would say a Cacao Specialist!
Not a hands-on farmer though, but I get fancied with it. That’s why it is fantabulous farming because the farm is in my head...or at my fingertips, playing the farmtown.
Farming is great, you have the chance of changing the face of the earth. Love the challenge!
