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Laura's Farm, The Beginnings
In November of 2004, while in Baguio,
Tinette Cuevas-Lucero
with the prodding of her mother Tessie, started to entertain
the idea of setting up her own farm. With the vision of the
farms she would pass by through the scenery of Malaga and
Seville in Spain, she made a few calls and eventually found
a contact to a consultant for vegetable farming.
Using the idle land of her grandmother in San Pablo, Laguna,
she launched into this business venture of hers. The organic
farm was to be called "Laura's Farm" after her family's
matriarch.
After a few discussions with the consultant on the yield
expected per week from this project, Tinette was inspired to
tap into her business background and take on the dual role
of both owner and creative director. Tinette is a Business
Management graduate from the Ateneo de Manila University and
currently teaches in Thames International Business School.
With a yield of a wide variety of lettuces and different
vegetables, Laura's Farm is set apart from the others by
choosing to go the organic way. With restaurants as the
initial customers, business was going great. In the middle
of all the initial euphoria of success, Tinette sought to
reach more people. She achieved this by setting up a
home-based salad business that has developed from only
producing two varieties to now, eleven varieties.
This home-based business also echoed Tinette's passionate
view on promoting a new lifestyle of healthy living
highlighted by eating organic greens. With salads moving
along, gourmet sandwiches followed and just recently, a full
catering service of healthy home-prepared food is now in
operation.
Full steam ahead, Tinette continues to reach more people by
sharing her advocacy of healthy living most especially by
eating organic lettuce. She believes that it is never too
late to begin a new lifestyle.
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