Xi DIY Farming

09/06/2025

P40/kilo. P80 elsewhere. So much cheaper than the already cheap Rappler Papayas which were at P55/kilo.

PAPAYA BACK AND FORCED. I guess you can understand why traders would pass up on large sized RED LADY PAPAYAS. They are forced to choose only the smaller ones. It’s what their customers want, especially if those customers are public market vendors. Large(r) papayas are harder to sell, smaller ones go faster. We are not surprised that this farmer from Baler, Aurora was not able to sell his Papayas, that if RuRi had not taken them he would be forced to bring his Papayas back home, most likely to be thrown away. If we are unable to find owners for these Papayas among our members, we’ll be “forced” to donate them. We are not sad at that prospect, to see so many people (and pigs, horses, goats and carabaos at the Cat House) would be happy to have them, but for now let’s try to find owners.

SPECIAL PAPAYA SALE. So this morning, 700 kilos of oversized Papayas from Baler were rejected by buyers at a bagsakan in Bulacan for being “too big”. These buyers were buying to resell and it was easier for them to sell smaller papayas than big ones. The farmer pleaded wth Andie, and Andie posted her own plea in the group before I could write this. Please will you eat more Papayas this week if we gave you a very good deal of just P40/kilo?

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08/06/2025

OPENING THE FLOODGATES. By mentioning that we have rescue Carrots to give, we accidentally opened a floodgate we cannot close. Requests from owners of beleaguered animal rescue shelters, of hopeful individual stray feeders have been coming in yesterday and last night, asking if they too can have some Carrots. Unfortunately, we do not have enough Carrots to give to so many, we only have enough from the pledges we have so far received. We’re not getting the carrots free from the farmers kahit nagtatapon na sila, we are insisting to pay them for them. We shall not take advantage of their situation.

To see if we can afford to give more, we called our farmers in Buguias to ask how much it would cost to get 500 kilos of Carrots and Potatoes, two vegetables that are in over production there right now. (Pag carrots, iniiwan na lang nila ang medium sa garden, hindi lang mga RR. Pag patatas, ganun din iniiwan nila ang mga baby potatoes.) They said P15,000, pickup natin doon. P15,000 = 250 kilos of carrots and 250 kilos na yun, can you imagine that? Parang P30 per kilo lang. Sobrang mura actually but the farmers say okay na daw yun, parang donation nila. Farmers are seeing the example of Juniemar and his wife Leila who donated wombok, inspiring naman talaga. Add the Transportify na P7,000 = P22,000, we’ll have 500 more kilos to give. Enough na. Enough to feed thousands of dogs if each shelter gets 100 kilo — 50 kilos patatas, 50 kilos carrots. Enough na yun.

We’d like to raise that amount today by inviting members who have yet to be a part of this. Our target to reach that amount is this evening so that we can commit to the farmers. Possible po kaya? In our experience raising help through awareness, we are likely to gather half of that amount. We will be more than happy with that, we’ll cover with personal funds yung difference.

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We are praying for a strong effort today, for a floodgate of goodness to open up. May God bless us all, and the farmers and animals more.

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