Daily Bread Organic Farm and Resort
AAP’s drive tour caravan also highlights farm tourism, the newest trend in travel, moving around the various farms near Metro Manila to explore, immerse in and experience the culture of a farm. From the East West Seed Farm, the caravan headed to the 3.1-hectare Daily Bread Organic Farm in Bustos for a sumptuous lunch at their poolside restaurant.
Check out “East West Seed Farm”
The poolside restaurant
This organic farm is the brainchild of Ms. Luzviminda “Baby” Tancangco, the first non-lawyer and woman commissioner of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) and also its first female acting chairman (1998–1999). Now retired since 2004, she is now an organic farm, health and wellness advocate.
Fresh lumpia
Being an advocate of healthy living and organically grown foods, she has put up facilities for relaxation, team building activities, and growing areas for vegetables, native pigs and other small animals like chickens and rabbits. Today, her organic farm is known for their mushroom culture as well as vermi composting, ornamental plant production, herbal plants, native pigs and other poultry products which uses the organic way of caring them.
Swimming pool
The center had a library, restaurant, greenhouse, swimming pools, clubhouse, conference area and several cottages which reflect several different architectural styles. The farm resort had been featured in several television shows and is an ideal venue for weddings and convention.
The organic restaurant, along the highway, caters to health-conscious customers. The income from the restaurant is used to finance further development of the organic farm. Here, we feasted on lumpiang sariwa (fresh vegetable roll), buko pandan and corn coffee, among others.
Baby has developed a network of suppliers of organically grown farm produce (mushrooms, various vegetables, turmeric powder, coffee from Sagada, honey from the wild, coco sugar, rice, organic wines, etc.). A consolidator of various organic products, she has helped small farmers increase their incomes. For example, the Dumagats are making money from the turmeric they supply to the organic restaurant and store.
Daily Bread Organic Farm and Resort: Don Claro Santos St., Brgy. Bonga Menor, Bustos. Mobile number: (0999) 883- 0779 (Ms. Anna Katrina D.C. Tangcanco). Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/DailyBreadOrganicFarm/?rf=104503639662998. Coordinates: 14.9581, 120.918.
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