From a commercial farmer to a natural farmer

Converting a commercial farm to a natural farm is not an easy task. But for sure, it's worth the effort.

Our first days of conversion: I used one building inside our property and  the Mahogany area for free range pigs. Pictures were taken December 2010.

This used to be a Pig House. We removed all the steel dividers.

Mahoganny Tree Plantation. This will be the future ranging area for the livestock.

This used to be a Sow/Gestating building. The roof was demolised. All that were left in the area were the cemented floor and the rubble from the dividers. This will be the future site for the raised bed vegetable garden.

 

Proposed Herb Area. Oh and by the way, those are forage seedlings and cutings for the livestock.

 I will be planting Rensonii, Malunggay, Flemingia, Indigofera at Cassava:) Future foods for future livestocks:) It took time to cultivate the land because the substrate is hard clay.

Forage area/ Pasture to free range white layers. We then planted Kangkong, Talinum, Peanuts, Carabao grass.

This is our on-ground vegetable beds. We added our mix of compost, carbonized rice hull and some processed chicken/pig manure. 
Old school garden tools still does its job.