Farm

[LITHIUM478]

Hi guys, dito na muna ako sa tahimik na thread

While most people on this section are talking about townhouses and condominiums, I would like to start a thread for those who prefer to live in a farm. I bought mine with an area of two thousand square meters (I hope this lot size can qualify already as a farm, aside from the location criteria). I am an OFW and would want to retire there should I decide to return to the Philippines (I guess I just need to invest on a 'hunting' gun later). The farm is located in the outskirt of metro manila (not far, not close).

My lot is actually a subdivided portion of a previously poultry farm. Good thing is that the road is paved up to my gate. The property is also enclosed with a concrete and steel wire perimeter fence so walang takot sa illegal settlers. Wala namang amoy na manukan or babuyan sa paligid, at meron pang fog sa umaga at pagkatapos umulan.



Also, there is an unfinished concrete structure that I wish to complete in the future. I am still thinking of appropriate design but I want to have a rooftop to enjoy the view of the surroundings.

I also want to do the landscapping myself soon.



Anyone here who lives or wants to live in the farm?

[cyberfunk]

What are you going to hunt for?

[rendaku]

Originally Posted by cyberfunk

What are you going to hunt for?

Raise chickens and quails and shoot them?
@TS: Have you ever experienced living in a farm?
I would enjoy a weekend in a farm if I have 4WD and satellite tv and if walang noise ng karaoke and tricycles.

[albert_b]

2000 sqm isn't large enough to be a hunting ground :-) you need like hundreds of acres to even have some semblance of a hunt.

But going to back to the question, yes I would like to have a farm for myself. Para bang A Simple Life yung dating.

[pecanpie]

Originally Posted by LITHIUM478

Hi guys, dito na muna ako sa tahimik na thread

While most people on this section are talking about townhouses and condominiums, I would like to start a thread for those who prefer to live in a farm. I bought mine with an area of two thousand square meters (I hope this lot size can qualify already as a farm, aside from the location criteria). I am an OFW and would want to retire there should I decide to return to the Philippines (I guess I just need to invest on a 'hunting' gun later). The farm is located in the outskirt of metro manila (not far, not close).

My lot is actually a subdivided portion of a previously poultry farm. Good thing is that the road is paved up to my gate. The property is also enclosed with a concrete and steel wire perimeter fence so walang takot sa illegal settlers. Wala namang amoy na manukan or babuyan sa paligid, at meron pang fog sa umaga at pagkatapos umulan.


Also, there is an unfinished concrete structure that I wish to complete in the future. I am still thinking of appropriate design but I want to have a rooftop to enjoy the view of the surroundings.

I also want to do the landscapping myself soon.


Anyone here who lives or wants to live in the farm?

^that would be nice. . . .a quiet and peaceful life.

[LITHIUM478]

@TS: Have you ever experienced living in a farm?

I experienced living in a farm (not the same farm mentioned on my first post), usually weekends and school vacation, when I was a child up to age 9, as my late father opted to live in a farm (though it is not far from our town residence). He is a Philippine Constabulary and he allows me to get familiar with his guns including my favorite Smith & Wesson .38 revolver (it is a snubnose so it fits my small hands). I also have an air gun (pellets). We use to hunt wild pigeons, 'tikling', 'sabukot', 'bayawak', 'sawa', and even shooting 'tilapia' and 'dalag' on the river adjacent to our property. I am fortunate that I was able to experience the thrill of hunting wild animals and swimming on an unpolluted river during my childhood years (sadly now this river is totally dead). I know farther to our place there are also ‘baboy damo’ and ‘usa’ that can be hunted (I have no idea what an endangered specie is before).

We also have various fruit trees in our backyard and neighboring lots to which we can always pick some and no one would bother. I love fruits that are ‘hinog sa puno’. I usually play on an old mango tree, but we also have atis, chico, guyabano - among others. We have had a vegetable garden (okra, sitaw, bataw, patani, patola and some more as mentioned on the song ‘Bahay Kubo’), we rotate crops and I remember it to be usually corn and ‘kamoteng kahoy’. We tried to grow ‘pakwan’ but I think the soil is not right. Ducks and native chickens roam freely (we never ventured to raise pig nor goat).

I enjoy wasting time on the farm especially during weekends. The farm doesn’t have electricity then (now they have) and we use kerosene lamp. We cook food with wood and charcoal. We usually eat on banana leaf. My father made a tree house for me on a sampaloc tree.

Our old farm can be reached only by foot. I had a pet dog I named ‘Baluga’, that accompany me every time I go to the farm and also with me every time I go back to our town residence. As a child I dream of having my own pony/horse but was not able to have one. I usually accompany my father in fetching our drinking water on a neighboring farm from their ‘poso’. He carries two large black containers while I carry smaller containers (the red engine oil container from Shell that we recycled as a drinking water container).

I love to listen on the battery operated transistor radio, programs like "Gabi ng Lagim" and "Simatar", while my father is into marching band and classical music. We also listen to the angelus/rosary every 6:00 PM. Other than the sound emanating from the radio, it is pleasant to hear the birds chirping, geckos/tuko, kuliglig and frogs croaking especially after the rain. In the morning, I enjoy watching butterflies of various designs and colors, hunt for beetles, dragonflies, grasshoppers, ladybugs and those other wonderful insects (I always love mornings after the rain). In the evening I catch fireflies to be placed on a glass jar, and it is a wonderful sight to see spiders weaving their web, especially every time there is a catch. I can’t believe all these I experienced in the early to mid 80s, perhaps now it is difficult to find a similar place like what I had described.

My father died when I was 9 and we were not able to maintain the farm - he died alone in the farm due to heart attack.

As mentioned on my first post, the road is paved up to the gate of the property I acquired. And of course I would need a 4WD vehicle to complement with it. Services like cable TV and wireless internet are available in the area, I can still PEx though I would prefer not. No karaoke nor trycyle noise there, but would love to play my ‘Fender Squire’ over my ‘Roland Cube 30x’ sometimes.

The 'hunting' gun (notice the quote on the word hunting) is more of a protection for me and my family.

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I am an OFW (still away from the Philippines), will need more years to accomplish my retirement home. I hope I can meet and collaborate PExters living in a farm.

[Viva La Tigresa]

Wow sounds so fun LITHIUM!

I also wanted to buy my own farm someday, kahit na 600 square meters lang solb na ako. I was inspired by a politician-friend from Bataan who lives in a farm. When we went there for a visit, my initial reaction was: someday I'll have my own farm! Napaka-simple ng buhay at sariwa ang hangin. Siguro kung fed-up na 'ko sa buhay sa siyudad eh mag-stay ako sa farm.

LITHIUM, magkano bili mo sa farm mo? Do you have photos?

[rendaku]

@TS: You from palawan or zambales? Anyway, unless you are living on interest, or have apartments or condos which you lease to make a living that is sufficient to sustain your retirement, you will have to be a farm businessman living in the farm.

[LITHIUM478]

As mentioned on my PM to Viva La Tigresa, my farm lot is conveniently located where I can watch a movie in Megamall or Mall of Asia and still can go back home.

I have a couple of city properties too on good locations (though only small lots) but I am not thinking of renting it out. What I am thinking is to have a passive income even on a small scale business hopefully in the near future.

And as mentioned, it is still many years to come before I build my dream house in the farm. And we can never tell, maybe the farm lot I acquired today will become a commercial area tomorrow.

I am only on my early 30s. My two kids are still very young (ages 5 and 3) and are with me. I just hope I can share with them my wonderful simple experience living in a farm even if it is only during vacation time in the Philippines. To which I wish this experience to be extended to my pamangkins living in the Philippines as well.

I am still thinking how I can run my finances in the future. Luckily with the advancement of technology, prospects are wider. I am interested in stock trading or ForEx (though I know it is very risky) while raising goats or turkey. I may also venture on an online business that I want it to be agriculture related. Or I wish to enter politics (my target is being a 'Konsehal'), or to teach in college.

Meantime, I have another small property somewhere in Central Luzon fronting a national highway bounded by rice fields (I am thinking of buying whatever local products there and bringing it to Manila - and vice versa).

Of all the possibilities mentioned above, I am currently contented dreaming and anticipating early retirement living in a farm and hopefully to expand my 2,000 sqm lot.

As soon as I am satisfied the needs of my kids are fulfilled, I can even settle with a pension from SSS (that I am religiously voluntary paying).

Cheers.

[junior01]

somewhere along aguinaldo highway going tagaytay theres a subdivision where they sell lots for farming actually its an farming village, i forgot the name maybe nusa dua or maybe its a project also of fil invest.

[junior01]

correction its from fil property but i think the value of land there per sq meter is a little higher because its a exclusive farming state.

[sunflower_888]

Originally Posted by LITHIUM478

I experienced living in a farm (not the same farm mentioned on my first post), usually weekends and school vacation, when I was a child up to age 9, as my late father opted to live in a farm (though it is not far from our town residence). He is a Philippine Constabulary and he allows me to get familiar with his guns including my favorite Smith & Wesson .38 revolver (it is a snubnose so it fits my small hands). I also have an air gun (pellets). We use to hunt wild pigeons, 'tikling', 'sabukot', 'bayawak', 'sawa', and even shooting 'tilapia' and 'dalag' on the river adjacent to our property. I am fortunate that I was able to experience the thrill of hunting wild animals and swimming on an unpolluted river during my childhood years (sadly now this river is totally dead). I know farther to our place there are also ‘baboy damo’ and ‘usa’ that can be hunted (I have no idea what an endangered specie is before).

We also have various fruit trees in our backyard and neighboring lots to which we can always pick some and no one would bother. I love fruits that are ‘hinog sa puno’. I usually play on an old mango tree, but we also have atis, chico, guyabano - among others. We have had a vegetable garden (okra, sitaw, bataw, patani, patola and some more as mentioned on the song ‘Bahay Kubo’), we rotate crops and I remember it to be usually corn and ‘kamoteng kahoy’. We tried to grow ‘pakwan’ but I think the soil is not right. Ducks and native chickens roam freely (we never ventured to raise pig nor goat).

I enjoy wasting time on the farm especially during weekends. The farm doesn’t have electricity then (now they have) and we use kerosene lamp. We cook food with wood and charcoal. We usually eat on banana leaf. My father made a tree house for me on a sampaloc tree.

Our old farm can be reached only by foot. I had a pet dog I named ‘Baluga’, that accompany me every time I go to the farm and also with me every time I go back to our town residence. As a child I dream of having my own pony/horse but was not able to have one. I usually accompany my father in fetching our drinking water on a neighboring farm from their ‘poso’. He carries two large black containers while I carry smaller containers (the red engine oil container from Shell that we recycled as a drinking water container).

I love to listen on the battery operated transistor radio, programs like "Gabi ng Lagim" and "Simatar", while my father is into marching band and classical music. We also listen to the angelus/rosary every 6:00 PM. Other than the sound emanating from the radio, it is pleasant to hear the birds chirping, geckos/tuko, kuliglig and frogs croaking especially after the rain. In the morning, I enjoy watching butterflies of various designs and colors, hunt for beetles, dragonflies, grasshoppers, ladybugs and those other wonderful insects (I always love mornings after the rain). In the evening I catch fireflies to be placed on a glass jar, and it is a wonderful sight to see spiders weaving their web, especially every time there is a catch. I can’t believe all these I experienced in the early to mid 80s, perhaps now it is difficult to find a similar place like what I had described.

My father died when I was 9 and we were not able to maintain the farm - he died alone in the farm due to heart attack.

As mentioned on my first post, the road is paved up to the gate of the property I acquired. And of course I would need a 4WD vehicle to complement with it. Services like cable TV and wireless internet are available in the area, I can still PEx though I would prefer not. No karaoke nor trycyle noise there, but would love to play my ‘Fender Squire’ over my ‘Roland Cube 30x’ sometimes.

The 'hunting' gun (notice the quote on the word hunting) is more of a protection for me and my family.

___
I am an OFW (still away from the Philippines), will need more years to accomplish my retirement home. I hope I can meet and collaborate PExters living in a farm.

Sounds fun, Lithium. Makes me feel melancholic thinking of my own childhood. I got to experience this whenever I spend my summer vacations with my auntie's family who lives in almost the same manner as you did with your father during your younger years

And yes, why not...I can relive those pleasant, simple and heartwarming memories by saving up for a small farm in the future

[rendaku]

Originally Posted by LITHIUM478

As mentioned on my PM to Viva La Tigresa, my farm lot is conveniently located where I can watch a movie in Megamall or Mall of Asia and still can go back home.

Oh dear, lady. If that’s how conveniently near your farm is to Mega or MOA, it is quite possible that by the time you retire, the green leaves in your farm will be grayish with lining of exhaust soot from 18-wheeler trucks, and the sound of the singing and chirping birds will be replaced by rattling and squeaking tricycles. Your teenage children will no longer hear the sound of the crickets, the frogs, and the lizard because these will have been creatures of the past. The little farm-sounds that used to herald the coming of a serene evening will be obscured by the irritating kapuso and kapamilya anchors and the eternal cycle of whinings and bickerings of the telenovelas. You can hardly discern the goodbye kiss of the setting sun on the land because the street lamp overlaps it and the power cables that sag across the view will cast unnatural shadows on the ground.
Your farm may have grass, trees, mud and a hundred feet of unobstructed view, but it will lose the character your so endearingly hope to commune with in retirement if it will become surrounded by anything but rural and agricultural, and your farm animals can’t even drink from the brook that runs through it. Your farm will jsut be a small parcel of fenched grassland moneyed travellers will take a micro-second glance at on their way to Hamilo Coast Hotel to enjoy urban pampering in a natural setting.

[albert_b]

eh rendaku, lithium didn't naman say na she's an hour's drive lang. Baka 3 hours drive naman?

[LITHIUM478]

Originally Posted by rendaku

Oh dear, lady. If that’s how conveniently near your farm is to Mega or MOA, it is quite possible that by the time you retire, the green leaves in your farm will be grayish with lining of exhaust soot from 18-wheeler trucks, and the sound of the singing and chirping birds will be replaced by rattling and squeaking tricycles. Your teenage children will no longer hear the sound of the crickets, the frogs, and the lizard because these will have been creatures of the past. The little farm-sounds that used to herald the coming of a serene evening will be obscured by the irritating kapuso and kapamilya anchors and the eternal cycle of whinings and bickerings of the telenovelas. You can hardly discern the goodbye kiss of the setting sun on the land because the street lamp overlaps it and the power cables that sag across the view will cast unnatural shadows on the ground.
Your farm may have grass, trees, mud and a hundred feet of unobstructed view, but it will lose the character your so endearingly hope to commune with in retirement if it will become surrounded by anything but rural and agricultural, and your farm animals can’t even drink from the brook that runs through it. Your farm will jsut be a small parcel of fenched grassland moneyed travellers will take a micro-second glance at on their way to Hamilo Coast Hotel to enjoy urban pampering in a natural setting.

Ha ha ha... you continue to amuse me rendaku. I noticed you are the same person who suggested raising chickens and quails for hunting. Maybe you need some fresh air girl.

Actually I welcome the prospect of hearing noon time shows from the TV set of neighbours as well as squeaking tricycle sidecars VERY MUCH. Should that time comes it would mean the commercial value of my property had already increased. I can always have the option to sell it and find other quieter place and repeat the cycle as needed. My mini-farm might be small in size then again you can do the math to multiply possible per square meter value for an urbanized location by 2,000 sqm

I cannot and will not be an agent that resist development.

While I want my kids to experience eating fresh kamote tops harvested from our backyard, I am not guilty having Chowking's kangkong bagoong.

Nonetheless, hopefully this scenario will not happen before my kids reach puberty especially I heard something that the government is planning to declare the place next to my mini farm lot as a protected area (there are resorts and waterfalls within several kilometers radius from my property). Therefore, my kids can still experience green grass and hear frogs croaking and birds chirping.

Either case whether it will be developed or remain as it is -- win-win for me.

[rendaku]

LOL! Yeah as a matter of fact I do. We all do, don’t we?
(… the scent of fresh cut grass and carabao dung breeze by...)
The irony of your aspirations—they’re so… pesos-per-square-meter-land-appreciation natural. Makes me remember my ex-gf, who wanted to live in the farm, but only ate a few vegies and couldn’t leave the pampering she got in the city.

[rendaku]

Originally Posted by albert_b

eh rendaku, lithium didn't naman say na she's an hour's drive lang. Baka 3 hours drive naman?

I cannot dig a working person drive 2-3 hours to mall or watch a movie. Sense of time and fuel cost.

Well.. kung sa bagay, if one enjoys doing so..

[albert_b]

ako sometimes that happens to me kapag nasa bulacan ako. Bulacan to Rockwell at normal traffic is about 2 hours

[LITHIUM478]

Lucky me, I may not experience stepping on a carabao dung as my farm lot location is not into rice farming.

Originally Posted by rendaku

I cannot dig a working person drive 2-3 hours to mall or watch a movie. Sense of time and fuel cost.

Well.. kung sa bagay, if one enjoys doing so..

What difference will it make from a working person living in Manila drive 2-3 hours to a resort and back?

Well.. kung sabagay, I noticed on the thread there are so many things so seem not to understand. Ganyan din naman ako nung Grade IV ako.

[rendaku]

TS: Mall and movies--not resort.
My 2c. Bottom line: KK kaligayahan naman yan.