Category Food

What is Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)?

December 10, 2018 · by · in Food, Urban Design, Urban Planning · Leave a comment

Something that should be strongly promoted in cities as a means to feed urban dwellers fresh and affordable organic vegetables, some fruits and even dairy and meat. In my opinion. But I get ahead of myself. So here’s the back story. Community-Supported Agriculture “is a system that connects the producer and consumers within the food system more […]

Food gardens in the city

October 10, 2015 · by · in Food, Urban Design, Urban Planning · 1 Comment

I was thinking of discussing here about urban gardening in the Philippines, on top of so many other articles written on this and of growing our own food. But I remembered instead that I made quick photopshop sketches of this topic, to illustrate how a shift in our thinking can go. This was in connection […]

3 reasons to shift to a plant based diet

October 25, 2011 · by · in Food · 1 Comment

I’ve been blabbing about this to most of my friends, and now here is the official blog post: It’s been the 55th day since I’ve shifted to a plant-based diet. That means I haven’t eaten any beef, pork, chicken, eaten only minimal amounts of fish/ seafood, and have eaten mostly plants for the past seven […]