Craving for mushroom turns into a thriving agribusiness

By Sosimo Ma. Pablico

Eleven years ago, a mechanical engineer in San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija craved for mushroom but was not able to buy any because no one was culturing it.  This prompted him to look for mushroom spawns instead so that he would produce the mushrooms himself.

For a number of years in between his busy schedule as a construction contractor, Jack Nagano continued asking people where he could buy the spawns but no source could be found.  After five years, he was invited to attend a three-day seminar on mushroom production and he offered his resort as the venue of the seminar.
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Uprooting

By Marifi Jara

This time last year, I wrote a melancholy piece about celebrating the sea. This year, there is a happy note. Our barangay, Nibaliw Narvarte (though it will always be Sabangan in my heart), just celebrated its first Tuyo Festival, timed with the province-wide Pista’y Dayat.

Activities were aplenty and though there was hardly anything related to highlight the sea and its bounty, it was an excellent beginning for hopefully more environment-focused festivities in the coming years. To begin with, it bears thinking the irony that our coastal community does not actually source its fish for making tuyo from its own waters.
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Re-evaluating our values

By Emmanuelle

Doctors of the mind claim that our realities are stuff that dreams are made of. On the other hand, they also claim our dreams cross-over to the reality of our days.

Usually, the lingering waking effects of these dreams diminish to nothingness. Sometimes though, these escalate to the status of walking stalking nightmares.

Who among the Pangasinenses relish the nightmare of Kuya Joe’s fall from gloria? Flash us back, anytime, to shots of the sons and their clones during the cabalistic ritual of disenthronement, and worms in our skin crawl. The images are immortalized, on film and on print. And in the screen of our minds.
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