Tropical Heritage Garden Diary:

March 2016:

March 01:

Starbuck -two months old today

Butlig looking for a new mate

Goat pen under construction

March 02:

Gas tank replaced

March 03:

Sorghum seeds -bagged and collected

Lots of young Tilapia



A Quiet Evening -inside and outside



with Spider on Balcony



and Hungry pig

March 05:

Dry weather -with plants trying to survive

Plants provide shade for each other



Weeds can be useful -but chickens?



Although livestock need the shade



Butterflies enjoy the flowers



...and some plants are even fruiting

-including Cacao bean pods which can be opened and fermented

....but in the evening there is no electricity

March 09:

Hidden eggs and nesting chicken

Young Cocoa pods, Jack Fruit and Banana

More eggs and tadpoles in water reservoir

March 10:

Work on the Goat Pen continues

More Cactus seeds sown



New Life Everywhere



...and a Giant Moth!

March 11:

Devastated by Chickens!

Anti-Chicken Net for Balcony



Avocado Tree rescued from Cobra Vine




Goat pen finally finished!

March 13:

Drying, Roasting, Peeling, Grinding and Boiling Cacao Beans to make Chocolate

Full House!
Goats separated to prevent conflict



No more empty pens....

March 14:

Modifications to the pig pen roof

A sandy floor for the ducklings



...and a new roof for the male goat's pen

March 15:

Building a Pig Trough

No Rain -water getting low in Duck Pond

Butlig gets a net as protection against falling coconuts




Project finished -with tarpaulin in place

March 16:

First new cactus shoot
-planted March 10

March 17:

No.1 starting to loose her figure...

March 20:

Goodbye Ihid

(50 kg)





To celebrate a local graduation


Chicken lays egg on worktable -and gets caught in plastic bag

Garden Spiders


photo: Fatima Lasay                                                                                                                

photo: Fatima Lasay                                                               

March 23:

Crab found in garden

March 25:

Frog in House

Monitor Lizard outside by Reservoir

March 26:

Goodbye Blackie!


... and Hello Chicks!
Born today -in a vegetable patch




Garden drying out



....but a Freezer full of Meat

March 27:

More eggs on Worktable

(but then hen disappears  -perhaps eaten by a neighbour)


Another hen already sitting on Eggs



and Young ducklings in the Fattening Pen



Making Tocino

March 29:

Sausage making/Home Processed meats

Empty pen being modified

Tadpoles eating a piece of pork fallen in reservoir



Bone Soup for lunch

March 30:

Brownie is moved to the other pen



Tocino for lunch




No. 3 is moved too -leaving No.1 alone in her private suite

March 31:

Escaped rooster recaptured

Belly Bacon for lunch



Hedge becoming tidy -as a result of feeding to goats in pen



  Tenderloin and Dinuguan for Evening Meal





Home Processed meat products
Homemade Pork Based Meals

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