The Philippine population has reached 100 million. How are we going to feed this growing population when our farms are taken over by real estate development and testing ground for GMO?
Capitalists and entrepreneurs see the opportunity that tons of profits can be made if food are produced at a massive scale and at lower cost. These so called food entrepreneurs have created food production systems backed by bankers and financiers to speed up and bulk up meat production. Chickens are raised in cramped chicken sheds causing immobility and disease but can grow enormously in 45 or even 21 days. In food factories, the natural instincts of cows, pigs and chickens are redesigned – cows these days do not eat grass anymore much less seen a blade of grass and yet produce tons and gallons of milk because of constant feeding of hormones and antibiotics so that milk can be produced at a massive scale at cheap cost.
Food has become denatured food products that contribute to diseases. Obesity, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes are at an all time high in the Philippines but doctors warned us that most of these diseases can be healed or controlled by food – real food.
Real food are fruits and vegetables grown on living soil in season and eaten in season. Animals grow on pasture and fed on grass, table scraps, garden waste and worms. They live out their natural instincts and are mobile to do whatever and wherever they wanted to go and graze.
Different varieties of green leafy veg
Sprouts.
Grass clippings are used for mulching to conserve moisture.
Mountain Rice
Soil is enriched of natural nutritional fertilizer to meet your needs.
This 3 feet red lady papaya is not just a beauty but is bounty aplenty of anti-oxidant, Vitamin E and E and folate.
Rows of calamansi grow alongside a barrier.
Greenhouse for lettuces and herbs.
Worm bed that provides nutrient-rich fertiliser for plants and soil.
Please check out our harvest offerings on Monday, 22nd to 25th September which you can pre-order starting today until Friday, cut off is 5 pm.
We are also offering subscription for September through December harvest.
Subscription Scheme
We do accept subscription gifts for your friends and family with our Cornucopia Scheme. This is a free choice scheme where you determine from the outset the price and the items you would want in your weekly sustainable basket, and we will fill it out with your preferences e.g. all greens and veg or an assortment of veg and meat, plus probiotic, or rice or other items. The choice is yours.
What is a subscription scheme?
Organic consumers become organic subscribers if you buy in advance either in one lump sum or in installment your food basket for 4 weeks or 8 weeks (if we didn’t hear from you, we roll it going forward) or at the beginning of the growing season.
In return for your subscription fee, subscribers receive an assortment of organic produce at discounted price which you have specified ahead of time, including frequency and number of periods.
If you would like to know what it is to subscribe, why and how, please call us at 0927 675 5199 or at villagegreenshop@btinternet.com.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Sustainably yours,
TheVillageGreenShop Team
Rice
Red rice*
Eggs
Brown
Golden salted eggs (soaked in turmeric spice)
Bottled and other natural items
Peanut butter
Wild honey
Muscovado sugar
Tablea
Organic bangus sardines
Salad Greens (Depends on what’s available)*
Arugula
Romaine
Mizuna
Herbs
Ginger
Mint
Turmeric
Lemongrass
Red onion
Pakbet Mix
Bitter gourd (ampalaya)
Eggplant
Lady finger (okra)
Squash (calabasa)
String beans (sitaw)
Green & Leafy Veg
Kale
Chinese Kangkong
Jute Vine (Alugbati)
Spinach
Mustasa
Chinese pechay
Native pechay
Talinum
Other Vegs and root crops*
Salad Pea
Celery
Cauliflower
Cherry tomato
Carrots
Camote orange
Sayote
Broccoli
French Beans
Cauliflower
Zucchini
Yacon
Tender Beans
Cucumber
Pakchoi
Cabbage
Celery
Gabi
Labanos
Mongo
Patola
Saba
Tomatoes
Fruits*
Calamansi
Blue berries
Poultry
White chicken*
Native chicken*
Grassfed beef *
Knuckle bone
Ox tail
Ox tongue
Ox feet
Tenderloin
Sukiyaki
Ground lean
Ground sirloin
Liver
Ribeye
Stew
Kenchi
Shank
Pasture-raised Pork
Pork belly
Pork ground lean
Pork steak
Pork chop
Pork ribs
Pork sukiyaki
Grass fed cured meat (no nitrate, No MSG, 100% grass fed)
Egg breakfast helps reduce ghrelin, a hormone that contributes to hunger, it also lowers blood sugar and insulin levels.
Did you know that 2 raw egg yolks contain nearly twice as many antioxidant properties as an apple?
Not only that eggs contain high quality proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals, egg yolks are rich in lutein and zeaxanthin, a class of carotenoids that offer powerful prevention against age-related macular degeneration; the most common cause of blindness.
Mongo beans are great source of Protein, Thiamin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Pantothenic Acid, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus and Potassium. And a very good source of Dietary Fiber, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Riboflavin, Folate, Copper and Manganese. It is low in Saturated Fat and Sodium, and very low in Cholesterol.
Kalinga Unoy Choco Rice and Kalinga Unoy Blend Rice
Rice is whole grain that is powerhouse of selenium, manganese, naturally occurring oils, and promotes weight loss. It is also great antioxidant; contains very high in fibre, and is a slow-release sugar. On the other hand, white rice offers risk in contracting diabetes as it increases blood sugar rapidly. It also has very low dietary fibre but high carbohydrates and calories. Medical experts at the Harvard School of Public Health recently found that eating five servings per week of white rice increased the risk of diabetes.
There is a global call for brown rice because development aid agencies saw the nutritional deficiency of white rice consumption in poorer or developing countries which creates further risks and challenges in economic development if its population is at risk of diabetes.
Christmas is here in earnest! In the midst of shopping and parties and other holiday rush, we would like to just take a moment of reflection of what Christmas truly means and look back that in spite of Super typhoon Yolanda, flash flood, monsoon rain and (#) Philippine politics….we are grateful for the many blessings – we are able to share the bounty of the soil by bringing to your table abundant farm fresh living foods that nourish us and our community of subscribers – this is made possible for us by our Tarlac and Quezon farmers. Buying foods from them made life a bit easier for their families; big thanks to our clients and subscribers who signpost us to their family and friends and appreciate real healthy food, and bear with our imperfections – we learnt so much from you and aim to continue even more to bring truth and integrity in our business which we truly feel justifies the use of our time and talents in the pursuit of giving people access to real and healthy food; and to our partners and enablers who gave us platforms so that we are able to reach more and wider communities, and above all big opportunities to take our mission to the next level in 2014.
As the new year looms big in the horizon we endeavour to meet each day with inspiration and enthusiasm to educate more individuals and communities about the ethical and social implications of our choices and decisions in food, and mainstream our low impact ethos (pre-order, buying together and subscription) and ensure that we reduce food miles by bringing to your table local and seasonal produce only and develop relationship with our farmers – this makes me feel privileged to share that we know where our food comes from and how these were produced.
Inspiration and Hope
Also we are inspired by many individuals and organisations who work more often un-recognised and unrewarded solely driven by conviction, principles and passion that healthy food should be affordable and accessible to all. At the back of Super typhoon Yolanda we wonder how might we make this right be made real to them, and how can we influence communities to be more aware about the onslaught of fast food and artificial food that continue to threaten our health and the health of our planet (pesticides, fungicides, GMO, hormones, antibiotics, artifical sweetener, flavour enhancer, additives, extenders, preservatives, food colouring, etc). In this context we thought more than ever why this makes our work even more important.
In the meantime, for what’s left of 2013, we would like to celebrate with loved ones about the true joys of the Season. We’ll surely keep you posted for great things to come in 2014.
A Blessed Christmas to you all and a very Happy New Year!