Benefits of Urban Living!

jezmacher (58)in #steempress • 6 years ago (edited)

Urban Tour in a small private owned field!!

Being away from the busy people in modern world quite some time is one of the best thing to exercise a healthy living. No more noise nor air pollution like carbon monoxide produce by vehicles. Less from high carbohydrate food and saturated fats we gained from fast food chains. Free from stress and anxieties that we encounter in daily basis. Lastly more healthier habit that separates us from unwanted unhealthy lifestyle. But these things are more about on physiological state of a man. During my vacation here in my friends place in an urban area 2 hours away from commercial land. I gave enough time for myself to unwind while enjoying the green environment. Where the land are covered with rice fields, root crops, fruit tress, and other agricultural products. During my walking trip I found this spices, fruits, crops and I learned how farmers exert effort in planting these source of life. Let me share to you and discuss one by one what I found here.

The Rice Field

Rice is one of the major product produced by agricultural farmers as we consumed million/s tons of rice everyday. We have to admit that we can't survive a day without rice. Every time we prepare our meal from breakfast, lunch, until dinner rice is part of our consumption. We don't eat our viand partner it with bread or eat some veggies to fill our stomach. Because we believed that rice completes our meal triangle everyday.

Philippines also exported rice to some nearby Asian countries that added income to our Agricultural stocks. Hence, there are times that we experience shortage of rice and local government watch every exported, even imported rice commodity from other country. Eventually, to balance the flow of distributing rice demand. Upon observation to this rice field the crop is about to harvest on the next 4 days and ready to milled. Then distribute the rice to supplier including the consumers. Per kilo of rice nowadays ranges from 35 pesos which is lesser we could get from the market. It is also called NFA rice supplied by National Food Authority. As far as I know this rice have smell absorbed by rice from the medicine stacked on top of the million sacks of rice. That happens during the storing process, but I'm not sure if that is true. Someone just informed me about that when I was in High-school.

Calamansi Field

One of the famous fruit here in the Philippines with high citrus content. This small fruit similar to lemon that mostly use in filipino cuisine. This will also complete you meal while eating grilled food, by simply extracting its juice and mixed it with soy-sauce or vinegar. As a Bacolodnon known to our best chicken inasal, calamansi will complete your meal. You can make your own dipping sauce then pour calamansi juice to your condiments.

Calamansi can quench your thirst as you can make a refreshment by adding some brown sugar o honey mixed together with a glass of water. Calamansi juice can be served in hot water which is very healthy and can treat your discomforted stomach. Not only that it is best to be served for a person with flu or colds that can help your body recover from being sick. It will also help to boost your immune system because of its high vitamin C content that your body needed. Nothing to worry if you wan't to eat this small fruit raw just prepare your self from strong bitter flavor that can distort your face or turning you into a grimace face gesture.

Chili/Spice Garden

Here in Negros chili and other spices are available in some houses. Most of the family have their owned plant of chili growing at their backyard. We are also expert in making the famous spice dips also known as " Sinamak ". It is a jar with mixed spices put together in one container added with vinegar.

Filipino love to eat eat spicy foods or add chili on their dipping sauce when they eat. Based on my own experienced eating spicy food or meal boost my appetite. But I don't like to eat when too much spices that gives me feeling of discomfort that my tongue is burning. Then having an excessive sweating while eating which doesn't look good at all most especially when you are in public. Yet, I am willing to take risk like a 3x spicy noodle challenge as we did that a month ago. What I can remember that the substance which is responsible for spice flavor is called Capsaicin. Where milk can alleviate the spice when you consume to much chili rather than drinking water.

Aratilis/Datilis/Muntingia Tree

Aratilis is a tagalog term, we called this tree in our hiligaynon dialect as datilis or Muntingia in English. A small kind of fruit that grows anywhere and mostly scattered by birds when they spill the seeds on the ground. It is a sweet kind of fruit with pigmented puree content. You can easily eat the content by squashing it inside your mouth or suck it to separated from its coating. It looks like a cherry in term of shape. Children loves to eat datilis as we all know kids abviously love sweets. At same time this fruit grows and produces thousands of fruits. That you can easily reach or get some piece of fruit from the tree with climbing unto it. When I was a kid I used empty tin can then make a cut on top in x-shape then pulled the center cut towads outside. While leaving the bottom as it is, enough to catch the fruit inside the can.