"It's a small world." San Vicente Botanical Garden

 San Vicente Botanical Garden

"It's a small world.*" 

"There's so much that we share

That it's time we're aware

It's a small world after all.

It's a small world after all."

It's a small world after all

Photos and Text by Dr Abe V Rotor 

"In these trying times, be resourceful and practical. 

Go back to the basics at the grassroots." - avr

 

Onion and kutchai in plastic pots by the kitchen window. 

Kamote tops at arm's distance from the salad bowl.

Oregano - native and variegated- for cough.  Pick a pot (instead of cutting) 

and take it to the patient.

Colors and shadows make a perfect blend in a garden

Bamboo seedlings from cuttings, as simple as sticking a node into the soil.

  

Hanging vegetables.  Grow vegetables on fence like kangkong, 

kamote, alugbati

Limonsito fruit wine. Fermentation process applies to other local fruits, 

such as guyabano, guava, mango, etc 

Homemade recipes: pickles of green papaya, bell pepper, raisin and sukang Iloko

(Ilocos vinegar); laing - gabi stalks and runners, coconut (gata'), and tinapa (dried fish)

 

Dahon ng sili (pepper tops) completes the best tinola (chicken stew).  

Yellowing leaves? Transfer to a bigger pot and change the soil with new. 

 

Homemade salted eggs in 28 days. Just brine water, no dye or mud.

Local fruits - banana, avocado, mango - instead of apple or imported grape.

 

Preserving indigenous species (native genetic conservation),

bastion of natural resistance and immunity.

Sterilize clean bottles in sunlight, a practical technology..

A night of Nature's music (chirping, croaking, hissing,

or simply the passing of breeze).

* Based on a song 

It's a Small World

By Robert B. Sherman, Richard M. Sherman

It's a world of laughter

A world of tears

It's a world of hopes

And a world of fears

There's so much that we share

That it's time we're aware

It's a small world after all (3x)

It's a small, small world

There is just one moon

And one golden sun

And a smile means

Friendship to ev'ryone

Though the mountains divide

And the oceans are wide

It's a small world after all (3x)

It's a small, small world

Source: LyricFind