CAGAYAN DE ORO—Aside from tending your own kitchen garden, another surefire way to eat well and healthy while keeping within the budget despite rising prices and the world falling apart around us, is to eat according to the seasons. The first step is to go to the market and see what is available in abundance....
CAGAYAN DE ORO—After doing what we could to adapt to the higher temperatures of our new environment in an Earth-friendly way by widening our windows for ventilation and by creating a micro climate zone with plants and a clay wall, we put food security next on the agenda. Fortunately, Mindanao has the perfect soil and...
CAGAYAN DE ORO—As a kid growing up in the Philippines in the 1980s, I was vaguely conscious of government exhortations on belt tightening due to an ongoing economic crisis. Then I learned about inflation and constantly worried over the cost of goods rising in perpetuity. Would my generation be able to afford anything in the...
