| Omanod Village, Santa Catalina District, Negros -- from Aug 2016 to Jan 2017 |
| We now buy raw coconut-meat (copra) from farmers around our vast village-farming areas -- including the very poor people deep in the mountains, where only horses and hikers can reach -- on a fair-trade basis -- and then we dry it for days over smoldering fires of logs and scrap-materials -- and then sell the dried copra to the mills outside Dumaguete City, where it is processed into healthy Coconut Oil and shipped out to the world via Cebu City. We are also buying bananas from those areas, by the thousands, and selling them in the city. |
| January 2017 update! |
| Our poor, overworked little truck... |
| From the roasting-bed ladder, Da Boss is with her brother Selso and cousin Archel, by the furnace. |
| storage-room under construction by our skilled crew, August 2016 |
| Finished and ready to light the furnace, first of September |
| A metric ton of raw copra, purchased from various upland farmers, waiting for the heat |
| Another ton of copra, smokin' from the roastin' in the drying-bed. |
| Big chunks of wood are slowly pushed into the long furnace, keepin' the roastin' goin' 24 hours per day; most of this firewood is sustainably harvested from our own lands, or upland neighbors. |
