Transformational Agripreneurship at Peñalosa Farms is an absolute treat for those scouting for potential income streams in the agricultural sector. If you're looking for someone who can tell you the secret behind farmville secrets, how arbitrage works in the Philippines using best practices, market analyses, awareness of prevailing market conditions, with the market players in mind, this is that answer you hear your self talk about in your head.
Missing this course will leave anyone trapped forever in this notion that there's no such thing as money in Philippine agriculture. It could mean that you are likely to get scammed by farm investing deals because you don't understand the numbers, the supply chain, and the in's and out's of the business. If you already own a piece of a farmland, you can easily run it below its potential, and spend your fortune on genetically-modified feeds and synthetic fertilizers.
Day 1 started with both the subtle and the radical paradigm shifts required for a true Transformational Agripreneurship from the conventional farmer mentality: the new mind-set, new skill-set, and the new tool-set. The best practices in organic farming, integrated farming, and other potential income streams make up this new behavior that completes the transformation process.
The rest of the course expands deep into the gist of organic farming called Agripreneur's Toolbox: for optimum plant growth conditions, natural pest control practices, composting and vermiculture, swine and poultry/ egg production, followed by the skills in agripreneurship, agritecture, and how to create project proposals for investors.
Approach to concepts taught in this course can trigger all learning types from the why type, to the how and the what-if types via group collaboration assignments that I found very effective in imprinting concepts into your system. Even more potent than this approach is the energy generated by chief teacher's passion around these subjects. However, if you're only there for the awesome food, farm fresh environment, the staycation, that's fine, but the late night assignments can be a little too intense.
Overall, this is a course I should have taken right after the first time I inquired about it 3 years ago from its facebook page. Not sure how it improved from then but sure enough this is one of the most profitable and the most memorable courses I been to offline.
