Praying for God’s providence to protect your work from natural and man made disasters. Thank you for sharing your insights and this adventure to which God has called you. Looking forward to connecting sometime as we start sharing our new property and development activities.
@@pursuitofcoconuts awesome! We’ve leaned into the calling for an off-grid, luxury, couples-oriented Christian retreat and events center. We spent 2022 training to facilitate retreats for couples where one or both spouses provide some official form of servant-leadership and started dreaming of a place for the ministry in 2023. Over the past eight-or-so weeks we ran a campaign to purchase the 10-acre Riverside property starting from $0 personally. The Lord opened hearts and wallets and we closed fully funded this Wednesday ($127,747.30) … so, we’re just getting started! Thank you for sharing your journey because it inspires us to know from your example that great impact comes from small seeds of faith.
@@pursuitofcoconuts will do. We’re currently promoting a groundbreaking for the chapel, which is being designed pro bono by one of the last living connections to Frank Lloyd Wright and his personally approved Taliesin Fellowship members (his architectural school). We plan to start posting from the property a couple times a week, if the Lord wills, after our oldest child’s wedding this weekend. Would love to share the details with you and get any insights and advice you might offer. Blessings-Cindy & Jeff
Wow!!! Thank you for your hardwork and Congratulation for your achievement.You'll be an inspiration for others to do the same. Looking forward for more of your great ideas that will help uplift the life of the locals there and other places nearby. Also for the success of the Pursuit of coconuts becoz your success is also ours.MABUHAY!!! GOD BLESS!
Mabuhay! Thank you for the kind words. After opening investing in this farm, we are now working on a low cost model for local farmers and shareholders. Please pray that wisdom and knowledge is passed on and that the newer methods are a blessing food wise and financially for the farmers! 🙏
Liked and Subscribed! Love the work, I'm in Canada but my grandma is in Davao Oriental! LOVE the work KEEP IT UP! You've already inspired someone to do the same!
Awesome! Davao has lots of farms and they are the backbone of the country. Send grandma lots of love and drop by to visit when you come to the islands🤙
Hope you're still monitoring the comments... With the cement beds, any big issues stabilizing pH in the beginning..how did you go about it ? So far from what I'm trying to research it says that it takes about a month of recycling the water and eventually any leaching would be minimized by then (please correct me, I'm learning) Also, maybe I misunderstood. But you said given The weather challenges, you would have preferred to have lined the pond with liner. In the situation how would that have changed things? Or did the cement develop cracks that a liner could be an extra barrier for leaks? I am working to design a recirculating system in the developing country I was born (raised abroad since early teens). Materials like the liners which are imported are expensive. I have been debating ways to make multiple the long media bed greater 4 meters. This is why I was curious about your mentioning of wanting to use a liner if you could do it over.
Great questions. The pH can take up to a little over a year depending on the concrete. This is from experience of my consultant. You can choose certain plants and vegetables that like higher ph until the leeching is minimized. As for as concrete, yes cracks from earthquakes wouldn’t be a big problem with liner. Also wouldn’t have to deal with the lime leeching out of the concrete. It seems like the best way to not complicate things but I do agree, as an import it can be costly but would be worth it since sealing the concrete also adds cost. It takes a month or 2 or even 3 to cycle the water to get healthy environment for the nitrogen cycle. The leeching can go for much longer. Hope that helps. Good luck with project! 🙏🤙
@@pursuitofcoconuts hello! Thank you for answering. Good to know it actually took about a year. In this case I may indeed lean towards covering. I ran into the idea of potentially sourcing misprinted billboard signs to build a pilot test first. I'm now binging through the rest of your channel, I'm sure there willl be lots of gold and tips there. Thank you for what you're doing and documenting!
Highlands would work amazing. Lots of crops that would do really well like strawberries. Aquaponics saves on water use also so if there is limited water, it would still be possible🙏
i'll be honest here. What your doing is good, but the area vs harvest ratio is not that efficient. We have a lot of unused land in bohol, so doing aquaphonics is not ideal. Also the vegetables doesn't look too healthy. What is the ROI? How many years till we get our capital back? Vegetables' selling price at bohol is at times too cheap. I'm just stating my opinion, hope you understand. Its just that I don't see this as profitable. Probable having a greenhouse, mosquito neat version and using organic fertilizer (composting) with the usual of normal levels of NPK would be better with the use of existing unused farm lands in bohol....
I agree with some of this. but having a aquaponics farm here in the Philippines is for sure a progress. but maintaining a aquaponics farm here in the Philippines is very expensive.
Thanks for your honesty. We are always open to dialogue and learning from one another. With that said, you may want to ask yourself why is there so much unused farmland in Bohol like you stated? We are loosing farmer daily and the younger generation does not want farm as a career. We did not claim that this was an affordable method of farming for large profits here locally. Although, it can be. With 2 sources of income from the produce AND fish, a farmer can make a good living. Ours is the “high end” model that is known to work. It’s brand new and there is some dialing in for nutrients and local materials but our aquaponics is growing at 4-5 time the rate of vegetables (the ones that do well) in the system. We are also investing money in creating an affordable model which includes an electric free pump and low cost of building materials. The goal is to inspire a new generation of farmers. We also teach composting, soil development, vermicasting, and livestock raising but the aquaponics allows us to innovate, build excitement, and get the attention of government and educational sector to really look at the problems. So to answer your questions, our partner farmers are profiting after 16 months and OWN their farms rather than work for someone, aquaponics has huge potential to make a good income (with investment on innovation, the flat screen TV was very expensive when it first came out, now it’s affordable) and traditional farming has its own challenges and each farmer has to has their option on their land, water access, and soil type to be able to choose the best method for them. Teach them to treat it like a business and take pride in their work. Again, THANK YOU, for being honest. Those are the types of conversations we had to have to make sure we aren’t just hoping for the best but taking action to what will really impact lives. 🙏🤙💚🐟♾️🌱
Progress comes at a cost and most farmers aren’t able to afford it. Our vision is to introduce it, prove it works, then make it accessible by research and development to bring down the cost of building and operating an aquaponic farm. We are investing time and resources to build an electric free pump. Praying the model works in the next couple of week🙏🤙
In the Philippines you don’t have build the farm like that because too expensive and easy to do the farm in the Philippines because a lot of rain if you want just organic is no problem because the rain you don’t have to hired a lot people to take care of your farm 3 hectares you can only keep the 3 person and find the honest person
You are right, didn’t have to but did and using it to inspire a younger generation of farmers. We learned that traditional farming wasn’t attractive to the next gen and a lot of farmers are getting too old to maintain their farms. I’m only trying to listen to what the Lord puts on my heart and that is to listen to the locals and their needs. Not only by word but by deed as well 🫶🥒🥕🥬
@@pursuitofcoconuts this is only as good as a recreational project, or for self-sufficiency wherein your goal is just to eat naturally grown healthy food, not so much on the commercial or business scale.
You made mistakes that’s building a farm you should both the land first before you decided to build you wasted a lot of money you should buy land to develop a farm instead like that I’ve been waiting your videos since you move to the Philippines 🇵🇭 and you disappeared for a year
Kudos to you ! If there is ONE thing the Philippines needs it's PROGRESS !!!
Hard work, humbleness paired with progress… sounds like heaven on earth🙏🤙🫶
Praying for God’s providence to protect your work from natural and man made disasters. Thank you for sharing your insights and this adventure to which God has called you. Looking forward to connecting sometime as we start sharing our new property and development activities.
Thank you for your prayers! Love to hear about your development🙏
@@pursuitofcoconuts awesome! We’ve leaned into the calling for an off-grid, luxury, couples-oriented Christian retreat and events center.
We spent 2022 training to facilitate retreats for couples where one or both spouses provide some official form of servant-leadership and started dreaming of a place for the ministry in 2023.
Over the past eight-or-so weeks we ran a campaign to purchase the 10-acre Riverside property starting from $0 personally. The Lord opened hearts and wallets and we closed fully funded this Wednesday ($127,747.30) … so, we’re just getting started!
Thank you for sharing your journey because it inspires us to know from your example that great impact comes from small seeds of faith.
Love it!! To witness God’s blessing poured our first hand is a gift in itself🙏
Send us info once things get established🤙
@@pursuitofcoconuts will do. We’re currently promoting a groundbreaking for the chapel, which is being designed pro bono by one of the last living connections to Frank Lloyd Wright and his personally approved Taliesin Fellowship members (his architectural school). We plan to start posting from the property a couple times a week, if the Lord wills, after our oldest child’s wedding this weekend. Would love to share the details with you and get any insights and advice you might offer. Blessings-Cindy & Jeff
such a nice project, this is one of my dream, a solar powered aquaponics farm😊
Amazing work keep it up! Very inspiring!
Thank you! Will do!
Wow!!! Thank you for your hardwork and Congratulation for your achievement.You'll be an inspiration for others to do the same. Looking forward for more of your great ideas that will help uplift the life of the locals there and other places nearby. Also for the success of the Pursuit of coconuts becoz your success is also ours.MABUHAY!!! GOD BLESS!
Mabuhay! Thank you for the kind words. After opening investing in this farm, we are now working on a low cost model for local farmers and shareholders. Please pray that wisdom and knowledge is passed on and that the newer methods are a blessing food wise and financially for the farmers! 🙏
mabuhay for pushing through with helping out kababayan wish I could collaborate with you someday
Thank you and we never know, maybe we could collaborate somehow, someday🤙🙏
good job man! supporting you from laguna. keep up the good work\
Appreciate the support🤙🙏
Hope & progress ❤
Liked and Subscribed! Love the work, I'm in Canada but my grandma is in Davao Oriental! LOVE the work KEEP IT UP! You've already inspired someone to do the same!
Awesome! Davao has lots of farms and they are the backbone of the country. Send grandma lots of love and drop by to visit when you come to the islands🤙
Good work. Thank you.
keep it up Polin, you are a leader that others are following! from Negros Oriental! R
Filipino Farmer has so many challenges.
They so, lack of updated methods, newer resources, and a dependency on middlemen just to name a few.
Hope you're still monitoring the comments...
With the cement beds, any big issues stabilizing pH in the beginning..how did you go about it ?
So far from what I'm trying to research it says that it takes about a month of recycling the water and eventually any leaching would be minimized by then (please correct me, I'm learning)
Also, maybe I misunderstood. But you said given The weather challenges, you would have preferred to have lined the pond with liner. In the situation how would that have changed things? Or did the cement develop cracks that a liner could be an extra barrier for leaks?
I am working to design a recirculating system in the developing country I was born (raised abroad since early teens).
Materials like the liners which are imported are expensive. I have been debating ways to make multiple the long media bed greater 4 meters. This is why I was curious about your mentioning of wanting to use a liner if you could do it over.
Great questions.
The pH can take up to a little over a year depending on the concrete. This is from experience of my consultant. You can choose certain plants and vegetables that like higher ph until the leeching is minimized.
As for as concrete, yes cracks from earthquakes wouldn’t be a big problem with liner. Also wouldn’t have to deal with the lime leeching out of the concrete. It seems like the best way to not complicate things but I do agree, as an import it can be costly but would be worth it since sealing the concrete also adds cost.
It takes a month or 2 or even 3 to cycle the water to get healthy environment for the nitrogen cycle. The leeching can go for much longer.
Hope that helps. Good luck with project! 🙏🤙
@@pursuitofcoconuts hello! Thank you for answering. Good to know it actually took about a year. In this case I may indeed lean towards covering. I ran into the idea of potentially sourcing misprinted billboard signs to build a pilot test first. I'm now binging through the rest of your channel, I'm sure there willl be lots of gold and tips there. Thank you for what you're doing and documenting!
❤❤❤ is possible to implement aquaponic farming here in the highlands. Particularly here in benguet and ifugao. Thankyou sir.❤❤❤
Highlands would work amazing. Lots of crops that would do really well like strawberries. Aquaponics saves on water use also so if there is limited water, it would still be possible🙏
i'll be honest here. What your doing is good, but the area vs harvest ratio is not that efficient. We have a lot of unused land in bohol, so doing aquaphonics is not ideal. Also the vegetables doesn't look too healthy. What is the ROI? How many years till we get our capital back? Vegetables' selling price at bohol is at times too cheap. I'm just stating my opinion, hope you understand. Its just that I don't see this as profitable. Probable having a greenhouse, mosquito neat version and using organic fertilizer (composting) with the usual of normal levels of NPK would be better with the use of existing unused farm lands in bohol....
I agree with some of this. but having a aquaponics farm here in the Philippines is for sure a progress. but maintaining a aquaponics farm here in the Philippines is very expensive.
Thanks for your honesty. We are always open to dialogue and learning from one another. With that said, you may want to ask yourself why is there so much unused farmland in Bohol like you stated? We are loosing farmer daily and the younger generation does not want farm as a career. We did not claim that this was an affordable method of farming for large profits here locally. Although, it can be. With 2 sources of income from the produce AND fish, a farmer can make a good living. Ours is the “high end” model that is known to work. It’s brand new and there is some dialing in for nutrients and local materials but our aquaponics is growing at 4-5 time the rate of vegetables (the ones that do well) in the system. We are also investing money in creating an affordable model which includes an electric free pump and low cost of building materials. The goal is to inspire a new generation of farmers. We also teach composting, soil development, vermicasting, and livestock raising but the aquaponics allows us to innovate, build excitement, and get the attention of government and educational sector to really look at the problems.
So to answer your questions, our partner farmers are profiting after 16 months and OWN their farms rather than work for someone, aquaponics has huge potential to make a good income (with investment on innovation, the flat screen TV was very expensive when it first came out, now it’s affordable) and traditional farming has its own challenges and each farmer has to has their option on their land, water access, and soil type to be able to choose the best method for them. Teach them to treat it like a business and take pride in their work. Again, THANK YOU, for being honest. Those are the types of conversations we had to have to make sure we aren’t just hoping for the best but taking action to what will really impact lives. 🙏🤙💚🐟♾️🌱
Progress comes at a cost and most farmers aren’t able to afford it. Our vision is to introduce it, prove it works, then make it accessible by research and development to bring down the cost of building and operating an aquaponic farm. We are investing time and resources to build an electric free pump. Praying the model works in the next couple of week🙏🤙
In the Philippines you don’t have build the farm like that because too expensive and easy to do the farm in the Philippines because a lot of rain if you want just organic is no problem because the rain you don’t have to hired a lot people to take care of your farm 3 hectares you can only keep the 3 person and find the honest person
You are right, didn’t have to but did and using it to inspire a younger generation of farmers. We learned that traditional farming wasn’t attractive to the next gen and a lot of farmers are getting too old to maintain their farms. I’m only trying to listen to what the Lord puts on my heart and that is to listen to the locals and their needs. Not only by word but by deed as well 🫶🥒🥕🥬
@@pursuitofcoconuts this is only as good as a recreational project, or for self-sufficiency wherein your goal is just to eat naturally grown healthy food, not so much on the commercial or business scale.
You made mistakes that’s building a farm you should both the land first before you decided to build you wasted a lot of money you should buy land to develop a farm instead like that I’ve been waiting your videos since you move to the Philippines 🇵🇭 and you disappeared for a year
I'm pretty sure he bought the land already.
We did purchase the land😉 Oh man, I hope you hit the notification button please. We have been putting videos out regularly 🤙
That’s the wise thing to do and yes, we purchased it without seeing it and made the decision that it’s where the farm will be🤙🙏