BINTONG

HOW WE DISCOVERED AGRICULTURAL GOLD. Three years ago we finally found the perfect SWEET POTATO in the mountainous town of Aglipay, Quirino. The search was sparked by hearsay among the farmers communities that there is a kamote sweeter than the imported Japanese variety. The search took us across the length and breadth of Luzon before we hit the agricultural jackpot in Cagayan Valley. The Ibaloi farmers that grow these veined red-skinned, yellow-fleshed kamotes along the side of mountains say that it is Najusan, grows sweeter with time. Later we found out that this marvelous sweet potato did indeed come from slips planted by Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during WWII to augment their military rations. In that sense, these really are really Japanese sweet potatoes that have adopted and evolved in the soil of the northern Philippine midlands.

BINTONG — P499 for 4 kilos

Helps Aglipay, Quirino farmers