Talon Integrated Farm

          Mrs. Edna Viterbo, owner of Talon Integrated Farm started as a hobbyist. Her husband was an agriculture graduate from UP Los Baños and when they were newly married, he often gifted her with orchid plants from his classmates in Los banos. This started her love for plants orchids in particular.



         After a while she would expand her collection of orchids by buying whatever right her eye. And when her collection of orchid’s plants was quite big enough for her backyard garden, shes asked for a portion of their farm in Talon (about 100 of meters) for orchids. Friends began buying from her and eventually she had to expand. Each year her garden doubled and she joined the Capiz multi-purpose Cooperative around 1985 to learn more about plants and orchids in particular. She attended lecture and seminars about plants, draceana, harvesting, and packing, everything that she had to know about farming.




          In the course of expansion she also meets and dealt with sources of planting materials and market for her plants. In 1998 she started growing orchids for cut flowers commercially and then in 2005 she meet a Japanese buyer of cut flowers and cut foliage offered to buy cut foliage from the cooperative and also orchids flower.



          Everything was going well. The farm was also delivering palms, ornamental plants to landscaping project in Boracay and Iloilo. However typhoon Frank hit the farm and everything was destroyed. The greenhouse, plants, houses. The week about to give up but then, Mrs. Viterbo was able to get loan to build her farm again, so study late last year, orchids are again a bloom the farm has started exporting again cut foliage to Japan and after of rehabilitation the plants again are grow healthy and landscapes are again ordering for their projects.



          One day they try to keep in their farm is to be environmental friendly. As much as possible they refrain from using pesticides and fungicide and they use organic fertilizers from Vermicast. Lately they have started growing organic vegetables.

Hercor College Student 2011

As a student of Hercor College 2011, and a graduate of 1st year in the same school. I am expecting to learn more on how to create a web page. In my first year, I learn the basic on how to create a web page, but my teacher is always busy, so the other lessons that he will teach or spread to us is disappear like bubbles, but he gave us an example, but I can't understand the example. Now I want to explore more about this subject.

This second year, I have a subject of Web Programming, and now I expected to this subject to improve my skill of making websites, gain more knowledge and to know what is the important of making websites in this subject. I am hoping to know more for this subject, because of my new teacher.

Why students should be serious in their study?

As a college students as of now, I am also having trouble with my studies. So now i know that it is also very hard to study in college. First you should have enough ability to conquer the test in studying, secondly you must have enough money to support your study. And last is you must also have a parents to guide you in studying. I try my self to study hard, but sometimes I said to my self "Matagal pa naman exam eh." And I realized that you must study early than you study late.

Now, I am conquering the next challenges in my life. When I am turning Second Year College this year, and I also graduating next year. I discipline already myself to study on or before exam, so I have my own answer when we are getting an exam. I promise now to myself to focus on my study, not to do something not related to my course like chatting, gaming and many more.

Why students should take college course?

Students should take a College Course to continue their studying from high school. After confront the challenges from high school, and now they confront also the challenges to become a college students. The way the college students will study, the way they propose their projects, thesis and many more. But these are only challenges in our lives that we are going to conquer.

In our time now, we still want to not eat in a day. So if we want to eat three meals a day, should we study well, so we finish elementary school, high school and college mainly. So we give benefits to ourselves and our children and families someday. Now, I can recommend, just the tread, just finished high school and will study more carefully. So you know which course suits you and take you to cover the college.

History of Com. Sci. in Me

Sometimes, i asked my self. Why do i get Computer Science for my course in college? That's the big question for me. Before i enrolled to my school right now, i came from many school to get an entrance examination. One day my grandmother talked to me. My grandmother said that, before you get an Architecture course, you must be know how to solve math problems, then you must know how to draw by your imagination, and the last you must have much money to continue your studying in Architecture course.

One day my grandmother said again to me, why you go to that school and get their application form? In that time i text my aunt and i said to her. "Te you want to come with me in the school?" My aunt said. "Ok." One morning, me and my aunt is go to the school. I get an application form, then in the afternoon, i accomplished all the requirements that they required to me. And so on the unexpected is expected. I accomplish all the requirements in the other school, but i enrolled in the other school. What a decision. But i did not blame my self that i enrolled in that school. And i thank to god. Because now i know where i am and what school i choose. "I proud to be a Hercorian."