| New Coconut-Mango-Rice Land we checked-out and are considering buying, above Fatima Village, Shiaton District, in early 2011 |
| It's a 12 min walk away from Lou's Mom's house in Omanod, across the main stream and through these rice-paddies. It lies after that grove of coconut trees you can see, and runs up to the top-ridge of that mountain. |
| This little spring-fed stream runs year-round, and runs on 2 sides of this 4-ha parcel, serving as its border. We are planning to buy the under-used land in Spring 2011, and start intensively farming it this year. |
| It contains 50 mango trees, over a hundred coconut trees, and various others. |
| We plan to turn these extensive fertile lowlands into rice-paddies, irrigated by the stream-water. |
| That's a giant, ancient mango tree, mother of the 49 others, and still productive. |
| Bananas in front, then mangoes, then coconut trees up the steep slope, then huge bamboos on the top. |
| already one contented resident |
| we can grow beans or peanuts on this lower ridge, near the back border |
| higher mountains in the distance, from that ridge |