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It was in 2017 when Pastor decided to end her overseas employment in Singapore due to an eye injury and to run the family farm instead. She hails from a family of teachers and farmers, so working in the
HN Organic Farm sits on 19-hectares of land in Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro. It is home to high-value crops like coconut, fruitbearing trees, spices, herbs, ornamental plants, and more. The farm is named after Pastor’s parents, Honorio and Nelcy. The initials also match the farm’s motto, “Harmony with Nature” and description, “Home of Native bees.”
The farm has been under her clan’s care for over 30 years. Before Pastor took over, the farm already contained coconut and other fruit-bearing trees that her parents had been tending to for more than 10 years. Pastor added more fruit-bearing trees and introduced the farm to Integrated Diversified Organic Farming System (IDOFS), a sustainable farming approach that includes integration of farm components such as livestock and crop production. After a year of development, their farm was given certification as an accredited Learning Site for Agriculture (LSA) of the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI). The farm has yet to be registered to the Organic Certification Center of the Philippines (OCCP).
HN Organic Farm naturally grows coconuts, mangoes, bananas, pineapples, papayas, rambutans, lanzones, cashews, passion fruits (Passiflora edulis),chestnuts (Castanea), jackfruits (Artocarpus heterophyllus), mulberry, peanut butter spices like black pepper and bay laurel (Laurus nobilis), varieties of bamboo, herbs, and several ornamentals including hoyas and philodendrons. Among all these, coconut, cinnamon, as well as their bee products are the farm’s major earners.
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