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Seed giving, seed swapping & heirloom seeds
Text and photos by Bernard Testa
Percy Duclayan is a long-time welder at the Balili Stainless Steel and Allied Works in Ligtasan, Antipolo, Rizal. But the 16 years he spent raising a family on the rolling hills of Rizal province have not made him...
Do not delay screening for breast cancer
Photos by Bernard Testa
When the entire island of Luzon was placed under Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) back in mid-March, a number of women failed to go to the hospital to consult with their doctor and undergo screening for breast cancer even if they...
Her night market
As evening moves to embrace the land, Aling Linda arranges the snack food, bananas, cucumber, and assorted fruits and vegetables borne from the mountains of Sierra Madre to be sold on this makeshift fruit stand inside a waiting shed, opposite an old church...
Julian Miguel Bondoc Alquinto: Poetry, Kid Andromeda, and saving the world
His mother remembers with fondness where she got the name for her only son.
“It’s a favorite name of mine. Sa lahat ng tula ko noon na sinusulat, nandoon ang karakter ni Julian from the movie Julian Makabayan. And his father, Mike, wanted...
Kitchen confidence: Pandemic essentials
I’m assured that the provisions you are sending will have a hard time getting through, even in a crate,” wrote the journalist Colette to her friend, the writer Renée Hamon. It was November 16, 1940, mere months into the Nazi occupation of Paris....
Carmen Linda Atayde: Life in perfect phases
Like a flawlessly solved puzzle, everything fell into place for Carmen Linda Macasil-Atayde by the time she reached the age of 25.
In 1965, at the young age of 23, she graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Mapua Institute of Technology....
