The Road To Simplicity This blog is about our transition from city life to a simpler life

Delivery and Planting

The low-bark Nam Doc Mai mango and longkong seedlings were scheduled to be delivered the next day. The downside to setting up the farm was that there was no concept of customer service like in the US where you can expect delivery to your door. We had to work with transporting the goods from the pier to Dalaguete. We rented a truck for a day which caused us about ~ $220 and hired people to help with moving.

Here's a picture of the delivery truck with the people who helped us move.

After the delivery, no time was wasted to plant the mangoes and longkong at the site.  The picture below shows the temps planting the mango seedlings. The longkong lanzones are shown with an improvised sun shield made of bamboo and rice sack. It's important that the Longkong seedlings are shielded from the sun since they can't take too much of it.