Early Morning Chill

To all our buyers of Philippine cinnamon seedlings, please remember to keep this plant partly shaded. Here, this is planted in a plastic bucket and positioned by the shade of the binunga, also a Philippine native tree. Be sure to plant your own Philippine cinnamon at home, as part of your container gardening, or in…

In the unknown part of North Negros in Don Salvador there are different women farmers fighting to survive and make a living by making use of what they have. Many thanks to Yob Doronila and Maria-Lourdes Doronila, for funding the planting of 600 Philippine cinnamon by 6 women farmers in DSB, Negros Occidental. “It’s to…

Too much heat? CTTO for left photo. Cover the concrete, asphalt, steel in your home with trees, leaves, wood, soil to cool your home! These natural materials hold water, which condenses, thus creating a microclimate (different climate in small area versus surrounding area). Philippine cinnamon can be continuously pruned to make it bushy in a…

Many ask if cinnamon is the same as laurel or bay leaf because both are use as spice in cooking Adobo. (kidding aside.) Seriously, it has a lot of difference but both belongs to Lauraceae family. Sharing the basic information on the cinnamon from the presentation of Dr. Jay Picardal at the Philippine-American Academy of…

How to sustainably harvest Philippine cinnamon bark and leaves.Technique #1 (sources: Phil DENR RISE Nov 1992; National Cinnamon Research and Training Center, Sri Lanka): Cut back your young Philippine cinnamon tree. We will share tomorrow Technique #2 (Source: DOST-FPRDI) on harvesting bark from mature trees. We tried Technique #1, and we find it really good…