𝙏𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙈𝙄𝘽𝙉𝙋

Our field staff, @Cleo Hechanova, an agroforester who graduated from @Occidental Mindoro State College, with Taobuid from farasfasan (lowland) and tibabuid  (highland) communities, led the outplanting of hardened wildlings to establish tree guilds in the ecosystem restoration experimental area in Landing. The soil in Landing is very poor, so the holes where the seedlings were planted were filled with additional biomass, the area around the seedlings was mulched, and a small round swale was constructed. The practice is inspired by the tree guild concept in permaculture, where different species of wildlings are planted around an existing established young tree. In the case of Landing, the established young trees are usually anapla (Albizia procera), almuyo (Ficus nota), tiyagtag (Ficus septica), kalamayo (Mitragyna diversifolia), and bagyuan (Antidesma ghaesembilla).