The best time of the year for flower farmers

Apple Ta-as 10/28/2016

(Conclusion) For flower farmer Jonie Bonganoy, the task of harvesting and packing his cut flowers is made easier with the help from his friend Toto Bayawa, 32, who is also the owner of the lot that Bonganoy…

More visitors troop to Sirao

Apple Ta-as 10/22/2016

With the flowers now in full bloom, more local and foreign tourists are traveling to the mountain barangay of Sirao in Cebu City to take “selfie” with celosia flowers, locally known as the burlas, which are abundant…

The ‘dying’ bamboo trade

Morexette Erram 10/16/2016

Once a week, before a streak of sunlight touches the asphalt sidewalk of Gorordo Avenue, a mini-bus unloads more than 30 freshly harvested poles of bamboo from Cebu City’s hillside barangays Bacayan, Sirao and Talamban on the…

Burlas bloom anew in Sirao

Apple Ta-as 02/07/2016

Yellow and red celosia, locally known as “burlas,” now blooms anew in abundance at this hillside flower farm in Barangay Sirao, an upland village of Cebu City. The Sirao flower garden, managed and owned by Maria Elena…

‘More care, please’

Apple Ta-as 11/04/2015

  The sight of broken stems and flowers crushed in the mud so disappointed Maria Elena Sy Chua, she almost closed her now-popular flower farm in Sirao to visitors. “I  was discouraged … I have second thoughts…

SELFIES IN BLOOM

Apple Ta-as 11/01/2015

Cut flowers draw photo-hungry visitors Yellow and red blooms greet visitors who arrive at a small hillside farm in barangay Sirao, Cebu City. It rained hard in the morning, and fog draped the site yesterday. This didn’t…

Ground cracks in Sirao worry mountain folks

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/06/2014

Two long cracks in the ground, one measuring over 30 meters, have worried residents after they suddenly appeared in the mountain barangay of Sirao in Cebu City a few days after a downpour. “We are looking at…

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