WHAT started as a strain-relieving activity for the pinnacle of a nearby university has advanced into an increasing organic farm and eco-tourism lodge, with long-time period plans consisting of the construction of a small lodge and other traveller facilities, as well as increasing the farm’s output.
Emerson Atanacio, the president of the National College of Science and Technology (NCST) in Dasmariñas, Cavite, explained that he received a one-hectare farm within the more sleepy a part of Maragondon, Cavite sometime in 2005, after a health practitioner counseled to take in farming to help relieve him of work-related stress.
Over the following several years, Atanacio and his two brothers, Ericson and Erwinson, obtained more adjoining lands. Today, Terra Verde Ecofarm and Resort occupies 15 hectares of land whose capacity is slowly being tapped by means of the Atanacio brothers.