Trihernvilla Corporation

Trihernvilla Corporation An agricultural site dedicated to growing organic products that support sustainable agricultural practices and eco-friendly livelihood.

-- Cacao Eco-Tour Agency Startup --
Our mission is to establish an eco-friendly, sustainable, and health-conscious livelihood and lifestyle for its farmers, workers, customers, and consumers.

One of these days, we will supply the cacao beans to these chocolatiers ☺️https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fw...
12/06/2019

One of these days, we will supply the cacao beans to these chocolatiers ☺️
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The Philippines is emerging as a potential cacao capital of the world.

3m Organics Farm - 2018 Year In ReviewThe year 2018 gave us mixed feelings about how the events that unfolded affected o...
18/05/2019

3m Organics Farm - 2018 Year In Review

The year 2018 gave us mixed feelings about how the events that unfolded affected our people, the farm, and our objectives.
To summarize, we were able to move some projects forward, and we were set back on some. Our efforts should, at all instances be aware of farm dynamics such as weather, organic growth cycles, and our people's continuous application of the methods improvement processes.

THE GOOD NEWS ...
* Cacao Trees Update - 2018:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2215287738736247
* Agro-Forestry Project - 2018:
Part I - Agricultural Crops - Abaca, banana, coconut, sugar cane
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2217289101869444
Part II - Forestry - Endemic and indigenous (native or otherwise) forest/fruit/flowering trees growing efforts
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2217336041864750
* Organic Farming Operation - 2018:
Part I - Organic Inputs, Organic Rice/Corn Production
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2217965368468484
Part II - Livestock Operation
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2218100625121625

THE NOT SO GOOD NEWS ...
* Farm Challenges - 2018:
Part I - Pest Infestation and Livestock Casualties
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2218185048446516
Part II - Fishponds, Flash Floods, and Water Management
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2218215261776828

A collection of pics of trees and their status.

Farm Challenges - 2018:Part II - Fishponds, Flash Floods, and Water Management - Started development of our fishponds wi...
18/05/2019

Farm Challenges - 2018:
Part II - Fishponds, Flash Floods, and Water Management

- Started development of our fishponds with introduced tilapia, and its endemic co-inhabitants, the native catfish "hito" and other creek fauna, to help augment food needs of our people, and to convert the fish by-products into fish amino acids (FAA), and with fish excretions as organic inputs
- The herculean effort required in the fishponds development began in early May and lasted early December, employing an aggregate crew of 12 and two carabaos, putting in approximately 12,000 manhours.
- As our efforts neared completion of 8 fishponds with 30,000 square meters aggregate area, expected to have a total tilapia population of 30,000, late December 2018 heavy rains struck a near fatal blow to the project. We lost to flooding around 25,000 heads of tilapia at various stages of growth, breaking the fishpond levees carrying the tilapia uncontrollably downstream. - We cannot fault Mother Nature but rather learned an expensive lesson due to under-designing our ponds to respond to extreme weather due to the global climate changes.
The New Year 2019 brings upon yet more major rehabilitation tasks for these fishponds.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2218215261776828

A chronology of activities and events about water resources at the farm

Farm Challenges - 2018: Part I - Pest Infestation and Livestock Casualties - "Ulalo", grub worms are particularly fo...
18/05/2019

Farm Challenges - 2018:
Part I - Pest Infestation and Livestock Casualties

- "Ulalo", grub worms are particularly fond of an area of the property, eating at the roots of our young cacao trees, we had around 300 trees die out unexpectedly until we discovered that these trees were eaten alive a the root level. We then, replanted the said area with vetiver grass, thinking that they will be spared. However, after the following generation of grub worms, the vetiver grass died too. We have since replaced the vetiver grass with banana stalks, hoping that these will not be affected by the grub worms. We will continue to monitor the health of this patch of land.
- Aphids and mites observed on cacao leaves in spotted areas are treated with ginger/garlic extracts, and "siling labuyo" (native Bicol Region) pepper extracts.
- Cacao Pod Rot, too much shade in some areas of cacao trees, causing pod rot among the cacao harvested there, and we have since mitigated the effects with doubling up on spraying OHN and garlic/ginger extracts and performing aggressive pruning of the cacao trees and other foliage around these trees.
- It is with trepidation that I update our foray into raising free-range chicken with major sad news. We started with 100 day-old chicks on EOM November 2017 and ended up scuttling the project with a remaining 12 chickens dressed for consumption during the Holy Week festivities.
Several reasons why the project failed include the cold and rainy weather during the growing stages, incorrect feeding protocol, minimal attention given due to lack of proper management, and lack of preparation for the range area.
- We had a casualty from our water buffalos, apparently suffering from an ailment that only the local veterinarian described as "lapo" crippling disease.
- We had a stillborn calf from our cattle herd, from breech delivery that happened overnight, our inexperienced caretaker was not able to anticipate and assist the mother cow.
- A snakebitten nanny or female goat was discovered dead the morning after it was found.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2218185048446516

A collection of pics highlighting challenges faced during the year, with several discovered after events occured

Organic Farming - 2018:Part II - Livestock Operation - The livestock (cattle and goats) complement well our organic inp...
18/05/2019

Organic Farming - 2018:
Part II - Livestock Operation
- The livestock (cattle and goats) complement well our organic inputs production, one sustains the other. The livestock manure and some of the grass and vegetation in excess of the livestock needs in the pasture area feed our vermiworms with its compost, producing the vermicast we use to fertilize our other plants.
- Additional beds for our African Night Crawlers (ANCs) were constructed, increasing both our vermicast and vermiculture production. Expansion of our vermicast operation will continue through 2019 and beyond, heightened growth and yield of our cacao trees and others require these.
- Additional grass and forage plants, Madre de Agua, Mulatto II grass, brown millet, sesbania, sunn h**p, were planted in the feedlots, and expansion of the area for grazing in preparation for increased heads of cattle and goats. The attempt to grow a variety of bee-attracting Carribean-sourced wildflower seeds were planted next to the feedlots, to start our honeybee farm yielded only a few surviving flowering kinds of grass. We need to revisit the process of growing these wildflower seeds variety for future cultures.
- The paddocks were reinforced with a low-level solar-powered electric fence in order to keep the cattle and goats from straying in the feedlot areas, unfortunately, the goats just crawl under the electric fence chewing into the choice grass and legumes in the feedlots. Need better management of goats

https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2218100625121625

Our livestock operation, paddocks, feedlots, cattle and goats

Organic Farming - 2018:Part I - Organic Inputs, Organic Rice/Corn Production - Our mission to raise all organically ...
18/05/2019

Organic Farming - 2018:
Part I - Organic Inputs, Organic Rice/Corn Production

- Our mission to raise all organically grown produce needed increased organic inputs of carbonized rice hull (CHR), biochar from felled trees and stumps, oriental herbal nutrients (OHN), Calcium/Phosphate (CALPHOS), fermented plant juice (FPJ), fermented fruit juice (FFJ), harvested seawater from nearby beach, as we continue to move forward this year and beyond.
- Corn produced some yield but needed better methods of production and enrichment of the soil throughout its growth. The future growing of corn will primarily be as silage for the growing herd of cattle.
- Planting upland rice the old-fashioned way using "basisi" as posted earlier in 2017 was a success, but maintaining its growth was a different matter, our management failed miserably in not attending to this task, among other challenges it faced such as manpower, focus, and attention required, the rice field was overgrown with wild grasses rendering harvest at disappointing levels and not worth the effort to recover the costs. We plan on doing another pilot upland rice growing in 2019, with a selection of drought resistance, native rice varieties, and dedicating focused manpower to it.
On the other hand, the lowland rice varieties of Macasane and Perurutong, seeds acquired compliments of a friend of a friend of IRRI, were partially a success, with less than optimal yield again due to flooding of the rice paddies at the critical time of growth (climate change effect) and lack of focused attention to its growth and w**d maintenance.
- We made a radical decision to stop lowland rice production and gone into fishpond farming of tilapia, which in turn presented another challenge - 2018 Year-End Flash Flood effect...

https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2217965368468484

Our efforts to produce and consume our own organic inputs, production of organic rice and corn.

Agroforestry - 2018Part II - Forest/Fruit Trees: Our commitment to engaging in agroforestry is our mandate and focus on ...
17/05/2019

Agroforestry - 2018
Part II - Forest/Fruit Trees:

Our commitment to engaging in agroforestry is our mandate and focus on growing agricultural crops and forest/fruit trees:
- Our nursery demand for seedling bags have been steady at around 70,000 bags this year for these forest and fruit trees, cacao and other plants we have been germinating and nurturing.
- Several varieties of forest/fruit/flowering trees, plants native or otherwise compatible with our soil and environment were germinated for scheduled planting at planned sites around the plantation.
Acacia, anahaw, amorawon, alawihaw, bangkal, bani, banaba, bouganvilla, calamansi, chesa/tiesa, coffee, dao, gugo, guava, guyabano, insulin plant,siling labuyo, jackfruit, lemon, kaffir lime, kamagong, lemon-lime vine, marigold, narra, native papaya, Palawan cherry, Talisay, toog, ylang-ylang/tangid, and any other endangered or indigenous Philippine native trees, to name a few...
- CAUTION: a few of these seedlings in the nursery remain unclassified since I lost track of which seeds they were over the several months of acquisition - please help identify them for me so that I can update the captions.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2217336041864750

Our commitment to engaging in agroforestry is our mandate and focus on growing these agricultural crops and forest/fruit trees.

Agroforestry - 2018 Part I - Agricultural Crops: Our commitment to engaging in agroforestry is our mandate and focus on...
16/05/2019

Agroforestry - 2018
Part I - Agricultural Crops:
Our commitment to engaging in agroforestry is our mandate and focus on growing agricultural crops and forest/fruit trees.
- Continuous expansion of the area of abaca and harvests of its fibers, we target approximately three hectares of the abaca field by year-end 2019.
- Some 400 coconut seedlings were germinated and some planted during the year, bringing a total of 700 coconut trees by EOY 2018, and will continue to germinate more than 200 trees by year-end 2019
- Over 3,000 banana stalks were planted throughout the year, and happy to announce we are able to market a few at a time to help defray farm expenses
- The sugar cane mill reconstructed and used to produce "sangkaka" (raw sugar cakes), and the sugar cane field expanded. The mill imported and sold to us by previous owners is approx 100 years old and made in the early 1900s by Chattanooga Plow Company of Tennessee, USA. Our talented farm crew headed by Arthur C., refurbished, installed, and made this mill operational in the year 2019. Getting molasses from our own sugar cane complements the making of fermented organic inputs and cane by-products used as fodder for our livestock and compost for our vermiworms
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheobromaTerra/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2217289101869444

The commitment to engaging in agroforestry is our mandate and focus on growing agricultural crops and forest/fruit trees.

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