{"id":557,"date":"2019-04-27T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T19:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newpathwaystoenterprise.org\/wpsite\/?page_id=557"},"modified":"2021-03-20T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T16:36:04","slug":"featuring-life-projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newpathwaystoenterprise.org\/wpsite\/featuring-life-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Featuring Nutrition Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Meet Mary Grace in Masaling, Negros Island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Grace explains advantages of the Livestock Integrated Food Enterprise as a business for a woman with small children. Her greenhouse garden is near her home. She can take care of her children and do the laundry while making carbonized rice hull for soil enrichment for her business!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mary Grace shares a recipe made with pechay, a nutritious vegetable in her Food House. Pechay Tagalog
Recipe by Dr Liza Ong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients:
Half kilo of Pechay
3 garlic cloves
1 onion sliced
Patis and pepper
Use little oil.
Procedure:
Saute (igisa) garlic, onion.
Then add pechay.
Lastly, place patis and pepper to taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health benefits: Good for lowering cholesterol, diabetes, and for constipation and bowel problems. May reduce your risk for cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We are expanding micro-farming businesses for women on Negros and Samar Islands, producing specialty vegetables, poultry, and hog-raising, all with high local market demand. The purpose of this project is to advance a sustainable, small-scale agricultural business, introducing and integrating best practices. Our approach is innovative because it increases agricultural profits by enhancing inputs, modifying labor throughputs, and selling products with high-market value per production unit.<\/p>\n

LIFE projects support the following goals:<\/p>\n