Costales Nature Farms

Our vegetables are naturally grown, freshly picked, sweet, crunchy and free from pesticides and chemicals.

We invite customers to personally experience the picking of their favourite veggies around the farm.  Some guests bring their own salad dressings and prepare their own salad greens right at the farm.

ORGANIC PEKING DUCKS

Similar to our pig diet, we also mix the feed for our naturally grown peking ducks. We just add a fraction of livestock lime. Kangkong leaves are also one of their favourite snacks. Sometimes we prepare EM Salad, a mixture of 10 kilo chopped veggies like kangkong, 2 kilo rice bran(D1), 5 ml EM-1 and 2 liters water.

We use poultry type of duck pens with the beddings similar to our organic pigs.  Absolutely, there is no foul odor and no flies around.  There is also no ‘bath tub’ contrary to the traditional practice of duck raising.  We harvest the peking ducks at 90 days yielding 2.5 kilo of meat.

We also spray their pens with mixture of  EM, molasses and water every week to eliminate pathogens and foul odor. This will also prevent flies from proliferating.   

ORGANIC FREE RANGE CHICKEN

While our chickens are ranged freely in one area of the farm, we also provided a shelter for them and the beddings is the same as what we use in our pig and duck pens. 

Aside from our own poultry feed mix, we feed the chicken with grasses and vegetable trimmings.  There is absolutely no chemicals and anti-biotics. 

Our sasso chickens are famous for Filipinos’ all-time-favourite menus like “tinola” and “sinampalukan”. We serve this to our farm tourists and visitors.

AQUACULTURE (ORGANIC TILAPIA)

We have four (4) ponds for growing our organic tilapia exclusively for leisure purposes. The water source is natural spring  from the mountain. We grow algae(lablab) on the pond for a month before we put in the fingerlings. 

We use Bokashi for growing  algae.  The profusely grown algae(lablab) will become the feed meal of the fingerlings for up to six(6) weeks.  On the 7^th week, we supplement  the algae diet with duckweed, a protein-rich aquatic plant.  We grow the duckweeds in a separate pond(without fish)    The best thing is that duckweed is free.  

We hit two birds in one stone – premium delicious tilapia and  cheaper cost of production.

There is no difference in the taste between our organically grown tilapia and those tilapia wildly grown on rivers. There is no rancid smell (hindi malansa). 

Guests usually bring-in their fishing rods to catch the tilapia using our vermi as bait.

This is great for family bonding- usually father-and-son , mother-and-daughter  team up. Fishing is a great and unique experience especially for kids.

It develops patience and very rewarding.

VERMICULTURE

At the farm, we do not burn farm waste, instead, we recycle and convert them into organic fertilizers, which will feed the soil and in turn…feed the plant.

One way of effectively recycling farm waste for composting ( aside from aerobic and anaerobic) is through the use of vermi(worms).

These worms are fantastic “eating machines”. They can consume  food(farm waste-grass, animal manure, dry leaves, banana leaves/trunks) as much as their body weight in a day.

The worm castings(vermicast) are very effective organic  fertilizers  complete with macro and micro nutrients that the plant needs. 

We use the castings in our specialized potting mediums(70% carbonized rice hull, 30% vermicast) that boosters the growth of seedlings.

For newly transplanted seedlings, castings are side dressed and sprayed with compost tea from vermicast.

HERBS ‘N SPICES

We have a specialized area for our herbs and spices. Guest can freshly pick their favourite herbs for their preferred tea flavour.  The most popular are tarragon and  spearmint tea because of their cool and relaxing mentholated flavour. 

Bouquet Garni(herb cuttings in a bunch)are available whether as  gifts or for personal consumption.

Herbs sold in cuttings and pots are:

•  Sweet basil, Purple basil, Thai basil, Lemon basil, Red basil, Dwarf basil

• Pepper mint, Chocolate mint, swiss mint, apple mint, pineapple mint,  Japanese mint

• Tarragon, Kaffir Lime, Fennel,  Thyme, Sage, Gynura, Stevia, Parsley, Viola

• Gotocola, Antenjo, Citronella, Cat’s whiskers, Old spice geranium

The trainings and  experiences that we have earned through the years combined with our passion have transformed us from corporate executives into full pledged multi-awarded natural farmers. 

We also had some mistakes during our early trials of learning the art of integrated natural farming. 

It is in this area that we can provide our services so that  “would be” natural farmers can safely jumpstart and minimizes the risk of committing errors.

It is guaranteed that after attending the  intensive seminar, attendees will be able to learn and implement on his own, the latest, easiest to adapt, simplest to practice, and  most effective technology in natural farming.

The most efficient way of learning, which are combination of lectures and 'hands-on' in addition to the complete training facilities and showcase of a commercial and sustainable organic farm, will provide every student the confidence and skills in learning the technology.

TRAINING PROGRAMS