homestead – salt&bleach

We were kidding around and joking about how difficult it was trying to carve our own bamboo spoons when I realized that all of these were the typical duwa-duwa growing up. We’d build our own toy trucks with used slippers as wheels, forage for wood in the neighborhood to build a fire, use a tin can to boil ipil-ipil leaves, make swords using worn our bamboo fences and so many other imaginative things we could come up with because that was pretty much the only thing we had back then. We were lucky! Now we have to organize these sorts of things so the these little ones get a taste of what it was like growing up in the 80’s and 90’s.

Cantabaco

I was a little familiar with the place as I spent a few years in Elementary at La Salle in Toledo City. Kuya, Coxon and I left Cebu City at 7AM and passed by Manipis on our way to Canta Homestead.

Cosmos

Greeting us, as soon as we’d stepped out of the car, were these Cosmos flowers in full bloom.

There were only a few of us but luckily there were also kids around. Coxon enjoyed playing around with the little ones while Kuya focused on the “life skills” at hand. Hahaha,

First order of business was to gather wood for the fire.

And then making the spoons out of bamboo. Right Kuya?

After lunch, we tried our hands at eco printing our totes with pigments from nearby flowers and leaves. The kids, again, including the adults had the time of their lives.