At Human Nature, we find our passion in creating sustainable livelihood for local farmers.

At Human Nature, we find our passion in creating sustainable livelihood for local farmers.

At Human Nature, we find our passion not just in providing genuinely natural personal care products for you, but also in creating sustainable livelihood for local farmers. 

In 2011, the CommPassion campaign was launched to help fulfill this dream and establish a passion fruit farming and oil extraction facility in our partner Gawad Kalinga Pueblo Antonio community in Catigan, Davao.

Since the launch of CommPassion last year, the farmers of GK Pueblo Antonio in Catigan, Davao City have been working hard to achieve the goal of producing premium quality passion fruit seed oil and sunflower seed oil for our products. This starts with identifying the ideal seed variety that will give the farmers the best yield and the high quality oil that we're looking for. 

The farmers are currently testing different varieties on two hectares of land for the passion fruit and sunflower plantation. As soon as we confirm the best variety, the farmers will allot a bigger plantation in their community for full scale oil production.

Human Nature together with the Department of Agriculture-Biotech have introduced bee farming in GK Catigan to help the various farming efforts of their Kapitbahayan. 

Bees are key players in the process, acting as natural pollination agents. The bee nuclear colonies will certainly help our passion fruit and sunflower test plots thrive and achieve the best results!

In their commitment to help the community grow, our very own Social Enterprise Development Team brought along an oil press machine during their most recent trip to Davao.

Together with the help of our friends from the University of Southern Mindanao and the eagerness of our Kapitbahayans, they were able to extract oil from the initial seeds used in the test plots. This oil will then be transferred to UP Los Banos for refinement and testing.

Since sunflower oil can be extracted with the same type of machine used to extract passion fruit seed oil, we'll be hitting two birds with one stone! Now isn't that a great use of resources? :)

Want to help further support the GK Pueblo Antonio farming community? When you continue to use products that contain passion fruit seed oil and sunflower seed oil, you support the on-going experiments in GK Catigan help ensure the success and sustainability of Human Nature's (and yours included!) efforts to provide these farmers and their families a better quality of life! 

Get your favorite all-natural products right here and see how your CommPassion continues to transform the lives of people from our community for the better! 
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