Nature Q-Farming And Durians
This year, the damage to the durians from fungus is less than 5%. A couple of years back, the damage was 30%. The supervisor at that time could not learn how to do the qi-compost right and we did not...
View ArticleNature Farming - Kuini
Kuini and machang are indigenous to Malaysia. It's strong aroma and taste have obviously left an inedible mark on the psyche of the local people as evident from these lovely 'pantuns' that are...
View ArticleRound Eyes, 'Long' Eyes
If you have a few thousand chickens running around, how do you know if some disease is starting? In antibiotic-free poultry raising, it is extremely important that we catch problems fast. By the time...
View ArticleLiving (And Farming) With Nature
The farm is a bird sanctuary of sorts. This statement seems to be contradictory at first sight, but our farm is full of birds of various kinds (about 50 different species at last count). We can farm...
View ArticleThe Yellow Birdwing, Troides helena, is now a resident
On the 1st day of this year we saw for the first time a single female Yellow Birdwing, Troides helena, flying fast at the perimeter of our farm, as if making an aerial survey.From a distance, it looks...
View ArticleFree-Range Egg Model for Rural Farmers
This is the free-range layer model we intend to implement as a social enterprise with rural low-income farmers. If they sell the eggs themselves at the Farmers’ Market, each egg should fetch rm1.00...
View ArticleUseful Plants At The Farm - Sirihan, Piper Aduncum / Angustifolium
The early European explorers to South America must have thought this plant is so important they propagated it where ever they went. It is now found naturalised in most tropical parts of the world.At...
View ArticleToday at the Wild Farming Pilot #wildfarming
'Wild Farming' is a work-in-progress to mimic nature. On a vegetable plot, we will plant maybe 40% non-market plants, some with insect repellent properties, some that are just aromatic to confuse...
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