The Goducate Model Farm in Laguna is where people are trained to produce crops that have the highest nutritional values, and with least impact on nature. Thus organic farming is promoted there.
Towards the end of last year, people who were victims of the severe flooding brought on by “Typhoon” Hagabat were trained at the model farm and employed as part-time workers. The crops they helped to plant in November last year were harvested in the second week of January. The crops harvested included cucumbers, red chilis, fresh string beans, pechay (pak choi), and native peanuts and corn. Some were kept for consumption by the staff and workers and their families, and the rest sold on the market.
The Goducate Model Farm also cultures African night crawlers (a type of earthworm that makes compost). The sale of the earthworms and the compost produced adds to the income of the model farm.
