Permaculture aloha

Palawan has 3,000 islands

Water quality and availability is a growing issue world
wide. No mater how many islands surround you, fresh
water must be managed in a sustainable manor.

•To manufacture one car, including tires, 147,972 liters of
water are used.
• 13% of municipal piped water is lost in pipeline leaks.
• The human brain is 75% water.
• Outdoor watering uses 35 liters of water each minute
(over 9 gallons).
• One drop of oil can make up to 25 liters of water unfit for
drinking.
• Half of world’s wetlands have been lost since 1900.
• Each year, over 89 billion liters of bottled water are sold.

10,000 sq m/hect x 1.6m/year = 16,000,000 liters/hect/year

Pond 2
Pond 1

Fresh water is essential for terrestrial life. Every house
and farm needs water to maintain health and life.
Without high quality fresh water life is impossible for
plants, animals and humans.

There is a very complex food chain, a food web
actually, that relies on water and produces abundant
food if the soil surrounding the water ecosystem is
healthy.

Crab-eating Macaque, Cynomolgus Monkey, Long-tailed Macaque

Macaca fascicularis

Palawan and Puerto Princesa City are host to one of
the Seven Wonders of Nature. The water flowing
through this complex ecosystem needs to be clean and
free of pollution to support life and remain pristine for
the enjoyment of the visitors who partake of the eco-
tourism activities in the area.

Creation is a Natural Sanctuary

Eco tourism is on the rise world wide and relies on
responsible water management. Agricultural practices
must preserve the habitat that feeds into this natural
system in the area.

Agricultural practices in the watershed flowing into the
subterranean river are not sustainable. They are mostly
farmed conventionally. That means a regular use of toxic
and poisonous chemical treatments that leach into the
water system and poison the environment. Sustainable
and profitable agriculture can be done with natural means
using Nature Farming methods, organic systems and
Permaculture techniques.

Sheridan Beach Resort
Organic Farm

2-4 month internship

Aloha Consultancy
Develop a Sustainable Agricultural Project

P10,000.00

Sheridan Beach
Aloha Consultancy
Develop your own organic farm Resort

Aloha Consultancy
Develop your own organic farm

Sheridan Beach
Resort
Chef wants more!

Aloha Consultancy

Eco tourists unwittingly
polluting the environment

Costing
0.00 3 sacks local clay soil
50.00 1/2 sack Uling (CRH)
30.00 EME
50.00 Molasses
20.00 3 kilos Rice bran or bokashi
150.00

Yield = 9 Trays X 36 = 300 pcs
50 centavos each

Why Learn from Aloha House?
Profitable Farm
Teaching Center
Run by Professional Farmers
High Quality Instructional Materials
Actual Farm (functioning not just demo)
Using Natural Techniques 12 years

He who works his land will have abundant food,
but he who chases fantasies lacks judgment

Lowest carbon footprint PDC

Correspondence Course

The Oven of Greatness
A Pompeii Oven

Aloha
Ranch
Aloha
and
House
Organic
Farm

Bread, Pizza, Roast Poultry and Stews will never
be the same

Closing In
The final coarse and keystone

Mix 4

Day 6

Full firing ready for use

Curing 2 weeks then:
First Firing 300 ℉ 148 ℃ max. 12 hrs.
2nd day 350 ℉ 175 ℃ max. 12 hrs
3rd day 400 ℉ 205 ℃ max. 12 hrs
4th day 450 ℉ 230 ℃ max. 12 hrs
Day 21
5th day 500 ℉ 260 ℃ max. 12 hrs
6th day full firing ready for use

The Founders / Directors

Full time volunteers
Unpaid NGO workers

Aloha Farm
• 1 dog
• 2 sows
• 6 cows
• 12 legumes
• 14 cover crops
• 17 fattener hogs
• 25 milking goats
• 33 culinary herbs
• 55 premium vegetables
• 98 Peking pond raised ducks
• 600 grass fed ranged chickens
• 3,000 Red and black Nile tilapia
• 30,000 Native Palawan honey bees
• 1,000,000 Composting earthworms - bulati
• 38,000,000,000,000,000,000 beneficial microorganisms

T.B.U. - Thai Biogas Unit

Feed stock exit
(C)

Feed stock entry

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Sustainable Agriculture
Sustainable Inoculation Method
EM1, I.M. (KNF), Biodynamics, Aerated Compost Teas, Bokashi
Ten Fundamentals
1.Crop rotation
2. Legume usage
3. Companion Planting
4. Composting
5. Green fertilizers
6. Mulching
7. Cover cropping
8. Minimal tillage
9. Insect habitat
10. Livestock integration

Feed the Soil

Farm Business Success
Assessing the 3 main skills

Technical Knowledge/work

Management Ability Business Sophistication

Minimize food miles

Aloha Consultancy

Minimize food miles

Regular Training for the Community

Minimize food miles

Aloha Octoponics
Integrated Aquaculture and Herbs, Vegetables and Fruits

Why have a nursery?

1. It helps to start many plants with protection
2. It will use less space to start
3. Best way to earn income
4. Intensify production

Holmgren's 12 design
principles
These restatements of the principles of permaculture appear in Holmgren's
Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability also see
permacultureprinciples.com

• 6.Produce no waste - By valuing and making use of all the
resources that are available to us, nothing goes to waste.
• 7.Design from patterns to details - By stepping back, we
can observe patterns in nature and society. These can form
the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.
• 8.Integrate rather than segregate - By putting the right
things in the right place, relationships develop between those
things and they work together to support each other.
• 9.Use small and slow solutions - Small and slow
systems are easier to maintain than big ones, making better
use of local resources and producing more sustainable
outcomes.

IV. Re-use, Recycle, Reduce
Catch and store energy

Catch and store energy

Solar
Oven

IV. Re-use, Recycle, Reduce

principles
• 1.Observe and interact - By taking time to engage
with nature we can design solutions that suit our
particular situation.
• 2.Catch and store energy - By developing systems
that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use
them in times of need.

principles
• 1.Observe and interact - By taking time to engage
with nature we can design solutions that suit our
particular situation.
• 2.Catch and store energy - By developing systems
that collect resources at peak abundance, we can use
them in times of need.
• 3.Obtain a yield - Ensure that you are getting truly
useful rewards as part of the work that you are doing.

•Rainy season pasture

Pasture Management

Allan Savory
Planned Grazing

Belly deep and moved often to mimic the predation of wild herds chased by wolves etc.

Cut and Carry
Browsing instinct

Networked biodiverse swales
producing a major edge effect

June 2012

Terra preta

July 2012

Soil building with legumes

Indian Coriander Minimal Tillage
Perennials

Eryngium foetidum

Main truss 280
cm
2 pcs 280 cm cm
1 pcs 220 cm 280
1 pcs 210cm
1 pcs 100 cm
2 pcs 60 cm All overhang
10 cm
231 cm 210 cm
cm 280
280 cm

300 cm

Vertical support
2 pcs 300 cm
2 pcs 200 cm
200 cm

Intensive Nursery 12 years

Soil Blocks

principles
• 8.Integrate rather than segregate - By putting the right things in
the right place, relationships develop between those things and they
work together to support each other.
• 9.Use small and slow solutions - Small and slow systems are
easier to maintain than big ones, making better use of local resources
and producing more sustainable outcomes.
• 10.Use and value diversity - Diversity reduces vulnerability to a
variety of threats and takes advantage of the unique nature of the
environment in which it resides.
• 11.Use edges and value the marginal - The interface between
things is where the most interesting events take place. These are often
the most valuable, diverse and productive elements in the system.

Aloha Kitchen
Artisan Farmstead Cheeses, Salsas, Jams and more

2 hectares
5 acres
13 rai
31 dou

Aloha House
An Orphanage on an Organic Farm

7 hectares
17 acres
43 rai
108 dou

Aloha Ranch and
Organic Farm
An Eco Village Half way to the
Underground River

Aloha House Inc.
Registered with SEC
Non-profit, non-stock NGO
Accredited by the DSWD
Orphanage
Christian Ministry
Mother’s Program
Train Progressive Farmers

Aloha House, Mitra Road, Santa Monica

Three way benefit
Of Effective Microorganisms

The Aloha House Experience:
I. Make a Sanctuary for the Poor

SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE

Poor Families

Livelihood
Aloha House
Palawan
Mother’s
Program
Orphanage

Tribes
(Indigenous Peoples)

Abandoned
Where do Children
the children
come from?
Squatter
Camps Fishing
Villages


Dumpsite
Feeding
Center
1. Qualification


Dumpsite
Feeding
Center
2. Registration

Bone Broth w/ Moringa,
Mongo Bean, Unpolished
Whole Grain Rice,
Pastured Poultry Eggs,
Raw Milk From Grass Fed Cows

5. Feed The Neediest, Most Vulnerable
With Nutrient Dense Food


6. Monitor Progress

Case Study 1 Gemma

ARRIVAL

T.B. - Pneumonia - Malnourished

Case Study 1
Gemma

Carrot Juice 2X daily
Whole grains
Natural Whole Foods

Gemma now lives with
her own mommy and daddy

Marketing the Farm
Direct Sales C.S.A.
Buy Local,
Buy Fresh!

Marketing the Farm
Direct Sales

Baby corn
onions
Red lettuce
kimchi Green lettuce
Whole Wheat
Papaya
Honey
Sweet basil Kangkong
cucumber

Pole beans Thai basil
Buy Local, Chili Pepper
Buy Fresh!

Marketing the Farm
Grocery Outlet

Fresh herbs

Marketing the Farm
Direct Sales
Value Added Products

Marketing the Farm
Value Added Products

Available at

Aloha House Built Soil Fertility
Through Resource Recovery

High acid clay soil with cogon

I.M.O.
KNF

III. Recognize the Soil as a
Biological Sanctuary

We built soil fertility by diverting our waste stream.


ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION
FKG
1 kil
o bo
Fermented Kitchen Garbage 20 li kashi
ter p /
ail

Step 1
Mix
Bokashi

FKG
Fermented Kitchen Garbage

Step 2
Ferment
2-weeks

FKG
Step 3
Bury

FKG
Step 3
Mix with soil

FKG
Plant
after
2 weeks

Companion
Plants
(mong bean)

FKG

Wait
for
harvest

FKG

Harvest

FKG
Before

FKG

After

Companion
Plants
(chili)

ya
6 kilo papa out
fert ilized with !
als
any chemic

Crop rotation
Legume usage
Companion planting
Composting
Green fertilizers
Mulching
Cover cropping
Minimal tillage
Insect habitat
Livestock integration

Resource Recovery
ORGANIC HOUSEHOLD WASTE
Bokashi
Kitchen
Garbage Bokashi Septic
Aerobic tank
Restaurant
Garbage compost
Vermi-

FRW
Crop Residue
culture & Weeds

Grey
SOIL Water
Treatment

Potting soil FKG CRH CW
CRH
Aerobic SVB
compost
Livestock Rice
Bokashi
Copra
Odor Rice
Hull
Talapia
Darak Control Straw

Aquaponics =
V

Aquaculture + Hydroponics
ORIGIN: 1960s from Aqua - [implying fish] + Greek ponos ‘labor’ + -ics .

Vermiculture

Soil Based
Plants and bedding are the Water Filtration

Filtered clean water
Plant Fertilizer

Grow natural feeds
to balance water

Fish production

vAquaponics = Integrated Vermiculture


Natural,chemical free, organic

Economical
Racking system

Efficient Transport of Seedlings
Bread Tray


Natural,chemical free, organic Overflow of Seedlings
Bread Tray



Overflow of Seedlings
Designed for Bread Tray

Semi-intensive Fish Pond 7 years
“Static Pond”
Natural, chemical free, organic

Home made feed

Rainwater from tanks from
roof water catchment

Sechi disk
4 kilo N
1-2 Kilo P

Floating Feeder

15 m2 X 10pcs/m2 =150 pcs
150 Tilapia X 105 days = 300 g

Semi-intensive Fish Pond 7 years

Home grown feed


Green Water Culture

Vertical column of Phytoplankton
Tilapia 30cm protein

Common fertilization rates used to establish a phytoplankton bloom in fish ponds.

Low hardness Moderate hardness High hardness
Granular
18-46-0 4-8 kilo/hectare 8-16 kilo/hectare 16-32 kilo/hectare

Water harvesting

Green Water Culture Gills covered
With membrane
To digest algae
compost

4 kilo N
1-2 Kilo P
Tilapia

High O2

30cm protein hotter
Vertical column of Phytoplankton
1 to 1.5 m

Low O2 cooler

swales
Pond 5 Pond 4 swales
Pond 0

Pond 1
swales

Pond 2
Pond 3

Water harvesting
hardware - road
swales

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wa
ad rd
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Dorms Pond 00

& ing
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-h ater
Orphanage
ou
W

Pond 00 - ridge dam
Pond 0 - contour dam
Pond 1 - contour dam
swales Pond 2 - barrier/check dam
Pond 3 - keyline dam
Pond 4 - saddle dam
Pond 5 - ridge dam
5 year Master development plan - 3 hectares - tropical - 1,600mm annual rainfall
30% pasture, 30% forest,15% water, 25% fruits/vegetables 12,000L rainwater storage

Intensive Nursery 10 years Semi-intensive Fish Pond 7 years

+ =
15 m2 X 10pcs/m2 =150 pcs

Intensive Nursery 10 years Semi-intensive Fish Pond 7 years

+ =
Natural, chemical free, organic
15 m2 X 10pcs/m2 =150 pcs tilapia

Intensive Recirculating Aquaponic System

15 m3 X 250pcs/m3 =3,000 pcs tilapia

Static aquaponics

Algae is seen growing in the water,
utilizing any available sunlight and also
nutrients from the fish waste. Many fish
in turn feed on the high protein
phytoplankton, string algae and blanket
algae. The balance between fish and
algae needs periodic monitoring and
intervention depending on the breeding
rate of your fish, waste production,
sunlight and the algae growth rate.

Fish and plants living in a balanced self limiting ecosystem

Water hyacinth utilize the nutrient load
from the turtles and grow rapidly. The
turtles will consume the plant so growth
rate and quantity of plants need to be
balanced. This is an appropriate
companion system if quantities of water
hyacinth out grow the consumption rate
of the turtles.

Turtleponics

Conventional confinement systems
deprive ducks of their natural
development and produce lower
nutrition than sun drenched, naturally
fed aquatic ducks.

Water is continually circulated through
grow beds that act as biological and
solids filters where earthworms and
bacteria do all the hard work.

Duckponics

Tigerponics

Algae in nutrient rich tiger bath water could
circulate through simple grow beds with feed
species for other animals in the zoo. The water
would not need to be flushed into the wild
waterways, thus keeping Thailand clean and
green.

Fact is you can integrate unlimited
combinations of nutrient sources to
produce more food for people and
livestock any where in the world.

Bootponics

Bioponics
Integrated Lif
ecycles
Produce Syne
rgy

ORIGIN: 1800s from Greek Bio - life + Greek ponos ‘labor’ + -ics .

Potting containers - Black Trays

Bokashi
Kitchen waste turned to fertilizer

(until you eat them)
IV. Grant Live Stock Sanctuary

Treat them humanely IV. Grant Live Stock Sanctuary

Water Harvesting

VETIVER SOIL STABILIZATION
AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

EM Dip Inoculation

Direct Planting

Direct Planting

Mycorrhizal Dip Inoculation

Vetiver
How to plant
• Direct plant slips
• Start in cups
• Nursery bags
• Cement sacks
• Rope method

Vetiver
Deep rooted tropical grass
• Non invasive
• Tillering - non running
• Economical
• Erosion stopper

Rope method Vetiver
For washout zones

Rope method Vetiver
For washout zones

Vetiver
Super bound non-erosion

Water Harvesting

12 months

On farm catering Marketing the Farm
Value Added Services

Marketing the Farm

On farm catering

Marketing the Farm

Weddings

On farm Tra
inings

Marketing the Farm
Trainings
Inviting the community

Marketing the Farm
School Groups Hands on
training


Marketing the Farm
Trainings

Marketing the Farm
Trainings

Agricultural Internships

•Interns work in a 4 month program 8 -10 hrs/day
•Sponsors cover Room and Board fee P12,000/mo.
•Lots of hands on, Technical lectures, management, tests
•In the beginning Interns are not very helpful or productive
•By the time they are skilled they leave
•Interns gain valuable Technology to improve/start own farm
•We get to see farmers succeed
•In 4 months you can (example)
•Plant corn and harvest
•Grow most vegetables to sell
•Fatten piglet and go to market
•Raise 100+ chickens for sale

Marketing the Farm
Free Advertising

Book available at
Allied Botanical,
Harbest in Mega Mall
Metro Manila

55 Vegetables
33 herbs
Fruits
Livestock

5 Greenhouses
Aloha Organic Farm
Cooking School

History: Aloha Organic Farm
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan
Tours
13 years ago free (1999)
8 years ago 10 peso
2 years ago 100 peso (with organic lemon grass tea)
Now 150 peso (with organic lemon grass tea)

Training
10 years ago free
8 years ago 200 peso
3 years ago 1,800 peso (with book, fertilizers etc)

Lodging
5 years ago 500 peso
2 years ago 1,200 peso (with food)
Now 1,800 peso (with food / 2 snacks / wifi / airport pick-up)

Conservation Work

Endemic orchids of Palawan
Dept of Science and Technology

Philippines Turtle conservancy
Katala Foundation

Stingless Indigenous Bee

Native River Prawns

Conservation Work

Endemic orchids of Palawan
Dept of Science and Technology

Dr Sabine Schoppe,
KFI’s Director of the
Philippine Freshwater
Turtle Conservation Program

Repatriated Philippine Forest Turtles turned over to
Katala Foundation

Philippines, 28th April 2012—They traveled from the
Philippines to Hong Kong stuffed in a smuggler’s bag with
over 60 other reptiles, but on Friday, 18 Philippine Forest
Turtles were returned safely home and are doing well in the
care of the Katala Foundation.

The Philippine Forest Turtle Siebenrockiella leytensis and the Southeast Asian Box Turtles
Cuora amboinensis were turned over to Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden in Hong Kong for
temporary custody.

Conservation Work

Stingless Indigenous Bee
Apis Trigona

Introduced species

Apis mellifera

Create Natural
Habitat

Solitary pollinators
Live alone

Carpenter bees
Mud wasps Indigenous Apis dorsota
Social insects Apis cerena
Live in colonies Apis trigona

Conservation Work

Native River Prawns

What was organic farming
called 200 years ago?

Farming

What do these
heroes have in
common?

George Washington Mozart

They all lived
on organic
food and
drank raw
milk!

Moses Jose Rizal

Sustainable Closed Loop Technology

Riparian
Buffer

Community
Development
Center

Orphanage
Green Riparian Buffer
House planted to native
Staff Housing species

RAM
Food Pump
Forest

Culinary
Zone 2 School

Visitors
Center

Community
Development
Center

Aloha Ranch

Dam and Swale System

7.4 hectares
17.2 acres

Aloha Ranch


Dam 1 Dam 2

Swale 2
Swale 1

Aloha Ranch


The Swale

Water percolates through
Water provides extra to the lower soil 2 ways
growth potential in the
soil system

Dam Construction

The dam key is the
lock in the soil that
allows a safety margin
and prevents water
Compressed soil
from undermining the
dam

dam key

Dam Integrity

Dam Construction

Freeboard is the level
above water that
allows a safety margin Freeboard
in case of a big rain
event

Dam Integrity

Dam Construction

•Replace valuable
topsoil for replanting
and preventing muddy
water

Dam Integrity

Water Harvesting Drain pipes

1” drain for
irrigation
baffles stop
leaks

2” drain for
irrigation
Drainpipe with baffles

Level spillway swale

Contour road

Preserved Top Soil

Top soil

Pond

Key filling with best clay material

Contour road

Level spillway swale

Aloha Ranch


Aloha Organic Farm
Cooking School

33 herbs
55 vegetables
Aloha Organic Farm
Cooking School

Mint Tarragon

Aloha Organic Farm
Cooking School
Turmeric

Aloha Organic Farm
Cooking School

Learn to cook
with fresh
organic herbs

Habitation

Agriculture Orphanage Production

Farm Store Staff Housing Restaurant

Green House Mik House Staff Kitchen

Mushroom House Eco Village Cooking School
Culinary School
Training Area
Water Slide
Food Processing Lab
Raised Beds
Picnic Area
Bakery (WFO)
Orchards
Creamery
Livestock
Water

The High Performance Zone
The Scorpion

Waterslide
Did you ride the
Water Slide at
Aloha Ranch?

Turn 5
Turn 4

Beginner

Intermediate

Turn 3 Advanced

Experts only

Agricultural Land
20 acres
6.3 hectares

Riparian
Buffer

Community
Development
Center

Permaculture aloha

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