Organic Brown rice: we haz that

 we have two organic brown rice businesses. 

Organic brown rice is more expensive than the white rice that is grown with chemical fertilizer etc.(which is often imported).

 However, it is healthier, and there is a growing interest in organic foods among the growing middle class here in the Philippines.

The gov't promotes organic foods here in the Philippines, and they inspect farms to make sure that there is no cheating. 

Farmers who grow organic food often have to work harder, but can make a larger profit as long as they can find someone to pack, ship and sell their product. And that is what Joy is doing: The business part.

Kuya farms our own rice fields and subcontracts with local rice farmers to grow rice for our brand of organic rice, which we mainly sell to upscale supermarkets. 

But his wife Joy is busy working with the gov't to establish organic business by teaching and supervising organic farming in nearby Bulacan, and that business sells their rice under another brand name.

Years ago, she was chosen to take a course in the Goldman Sachs ten thousand women initiative, which teaches business practice to women who are small business entrepeneurs.

She was recently chosen to take an advanced course they offered and just graduated. So congratulations to her.

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Thanks to the training and their help, she has recently established a website for that business.

As you can see, they are slowly expanding into vegetables and free range chicken.

LINK

The Joyful Garden Farm Organic Farmers Association Inc. was formed on July 8, 2015, to advocate, promote, propagate, develop further and implement the practice of organic agriculture in the Philippines to our farmers. We focused on helping the farmers, millennials, students, and community to learn about growing and raising organic food, and to generate more jobs and livelihood for our farmers and communities. We aim to support our farmers as a marketing arm and connect them to prospective customers and retailers. We aim to feed people with an abundance of wholesome, organically grown food and healthy products.​Come join us to spread this advocacy and support our local farmers and their products.

awhile back, I posted a video on her business on my youtube channel:

But now they have helped her business get it's own youtube channel, to teach people how grow and cook organic foods.

Here is one of her teachers showing you what to do with left over banana peels:

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