Malunggay Life Goes Organic! - Day 2

We spent the whole day today attending the second day of the seminar/hands-on training on organic farming and certification. We have been advised that the entire morning will be a lecture/discussion about organic farming, while the afternoon as well as Day 3 will be more hands-on training.

Registration started at 10AM. There were already other participants when we arrived. We were not informed that the schedule had been moved to 9AM :(

Our speaker, Ms. Gene, the lady in pink shirt, started with a lecture about organic farming and why go organic, general guidelines about the use of fertilizers, intercropping, natural pesticides, etc.

Here, she talks about starting a simple, mini aquaponics system.

Participants in serious mode ^^

Mixing soil and carbonized rice hull and putting tomato and lettuce seeds in seed trays

Time to sweat it out~ It was drizzling, AND it was the perfect time to do some plowin' and tillin'~

Mixing some manure and carbonized rice hull

Covering the plot with plastic mulch

Making some compost. Have to remember "N-P-K": "N" is for Nitrogen, "P" is for Phosphorus, and "K" is for Potassium. 

Making carbonized rice hull