ShareSuch sweet melons from Robinson’s Supermarket Nuvali! We did a quick stop last night to restock on fruits at home and were surprised to find the fruit pile almost emptied out, but for melons and papayas (even bananas were sold out). Seems everyone had fruit salads over the Holy Week. Was glad for it though– [...]
ShareBeen dumping our wet kitchen waste in a compost pit at home… It’s literally a hole we dug up and cover with soil when needed, to keep bugs at bay. Don’t know if we should be adding anything to the mound, but decided to just go ahead and do it instead of over-researching it and [...]
ShareI intended to have a green roof (grass floor) for my roofdeck, but since we decided to cover 3/4 of the third floor, that’s not a viable option anymore. Now exploring the artificial grass alternative and researching suppliers… was surprised to learn that the cost ranges from P 950-2,500/sqm plus installation and delivery. Just scratching [...]
ShareGIANT Langka from our Tagaytay garden: Don’t they just make you smile? Harvested 3 huge ones just last week, and another one over the weekend. When it came to cutting them open, didn’t want to stain my fingers with the smell, so took a knife and fork and sliced away methodically. Was surprisingly therapeutic, felt [...]
ShareVisited a Celena unit in Avida Settings Nuvali Phase 4 last week, and was surprised to be greeted by wild vines inside the unit! This was turned over clean and with a visible perimeter in January 2012. Six months after, it’s overrun with grass and vines, literally looking like a jungle. I asked the ASNU [...]
ShareHave always loved the indulgent feel of Cafe Juanita in Pasig City. Visited its new location (across the old one) last week and was happy to see the same quirky aesthetic translated to the garden setting: Simple layers of plants and outdoor elements (parrots!), put together with lots of love. Tweet
ShareInspired by my friend Asha’s thriving vegetable garden in her small townhouse in Quezon City, mom and I set out to transform the planters in our lanai– planted with flowering Birds of Paradise for years now –to our own “vegetable backyard garden” in the city. My brothers did their own herb garden project on one [...]
ShareI’ve asked permission from a friend if I could post her research on indoor vertical gardens as a guest post here. We had such a lively discussion about them over lunch a month ago– it was great finding a kindred green spirit right in Nuvali itself! Am sure many others out there will resonate with [...]
ShareDo you remember the giant sunflower head from Antipolo last summer? I didn’t know our helpers actually planted the seeds– and now we have a tall sunflower plant in bloom! Amazing… The head is not nearly as big as the original (see below pic), but it’s still a baby plant, about three months old, so [...]
ShareI love guyabano, I can eat one whole fruit for breakfast everyday! Whenever we chance upon an especially sweet fruit (we love it when it’s also soft, literally like cotton), we set the seeds aside and try to sprout them for planting: The other week, we were excited to see these small guyabano seedlings (seen [...]
Share Saw these while driving around Avida Settings Nuvali last Sunday–newly planted trees lining the sidewalk! Couldn’t make out what kind of trees they were, but imagine how they’d look in full bloom! Yayyy for the (future) green. Tweet
ShareFound this piece on urban homesteading on my browser today. It was the last thing my dad read before he gave me back my laptop and it made me smile thinking he’s still a farmer at heart after all these years. Hope we get to work on some city farming projects soon– recently bought a [...]
I am Johanna -- an artist, professional real estate broker and new resident of Nuvali.
Follow my adventures in My Nuvali Home as I find beauty in this new eco-city south of Manila, build my dream green home, and transition towards everyday green living in the Philippines.
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