Farming 101 taught in Cainta high school in the Philippines

Philippine Daily Inquirer 01/23/2010    IN THIS SCHOOL TUCKED IN the back roads of Metro Manila, the rice field becomes the classroom of a lifetime.  Temple Hill International School in Cainta, Rizal province is not quite like your typical agricultural school.

“Although farming is part of the curriculum, they don’t get grades from planting rice. It is an extra subject,” high school principal Mebruhtu Zemui Tesfazghi told Inquirer. “They plant rice as a group, but they raise vegetables individually.”

Among the plants the students grow in the verdant plots are squash, onion, pandan, eggplants, taragon tea, patola (gourd) and sweet potatoes, or kamote. 

 

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