


Our Organic Farm
The Strutz Art Garden Resort is offering excursions to our organic farm. Reservation is necessary as it depends on weather and availability of transportation. Our farm is located in the hills of Tayum and is mostly comprised of forest, but also plantations of vegetables, rice and various fruits and fruit trees.
It is quiet at our farm as it is off the main road and away from the bustling noises of the municipalities.
The farm is located in the hills behind Tayum. Most of the area is covered by forest. We are proud to have many varieties of trees such as narra, mahogany, mohave, gmelina, ipil-ipil, acacias, anteng tree, balete tree, blackberry tree, banabá tree, karkariskis, oplas tree, or fruit trees like mango, jack fruit, guava, guyabano, anonas, avocado, star apple, coconut, tamarind tree...
Many of the trees are still young as we have planted thousands of them in recent years and try to plant more every rainy season, a gift to future generations.
Some areas allow to grow different plants. In the rainy season we have some small rice fields. Depending on the season and the year we have vegetables, bananas, pineapple, guava, papaya or a dragon fruit. There are also wild fruits like mushrooms that we can harvest. Once we discovered wild orchids growing in the trees (nobody planted them there).
We do not use any agricultural products like chemical fertilizer or pesticides. The soil is worked by a water buffalo, its dung is giving fertilization to the ground. We use "vermiculture". This is a way of using earthworms to decompose organic matter, which produces vermicompost, a nutrient-rich humus-like material which in turn can be used as organic fertilizer.