Manila, April 3 -- For a budget-friendly fee of PHP100, a farm in Ilocos Norte is offering visitors the unique experience of harvesting mulberries.

Located in the rice farming village of Pasiocan in this town, the farm is owned by Richard Eugenio "Richie" Lamug, a former overseas Filipino worker who worked as an architect for five years in Dubai before settling home for good with his family.

Using a piece of land he and his siblings inherited from their parents, Lamug, together with wife Mary Grace, decided to set up a mulberry plantation in September 2023.

Named Enrique's Great Mulberry Farm after the late Lamug family patriarch, a retired police inspector who passed away in 2021, the farm became the first and largest mulberry farm in...