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Durians are in season at our farm. The trees are laden with fruits.  Branches need to be supported or else they will break from the load. There's zero purchased inputs into our more than 800 trees. We ferment discarded organs amd innards from our chicken operations to provide nitrogen for the trees. We spray compost tea made from humus (from our compost) once a week to keep fungus and insects at bay. That's it folks, plus of course integrated pest management without chemical pesticides.  Resulting in the only certified organic durians in...

Auditors from FAMA ( Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority ) came to see if we are deserving of the government export quality mark, '1 Malaysia Best'. Hopefully we will get the certification.  If so, American readers of this blog may soon find our durians sold in the USA with this mark: We are planning to air-freight them to the US with the support of FAMA to be sold...

This year, the damage to the durians from fungus is less than 5%. A couple of years back, the damage was 30%. The supervisor at that time could not learn how to do the qi-compost right and we...

It's fruiting season and here are some of the fruits:       Dragon fruit plant and the fruits.   Here's a macro close-up of the flower (click for enlarged photo) :...