Our First Dragon Fruit Harvest at De Klomp Santander

After months of planting, waiting, and watching the vines slowly climb their posts, we finally harvested the first dragon fruit grown on our own land at De Klomp Santander.

It may have been a small harvest, but for us, it felt like an important milestone.

Growing dragon fruit in Santander, Cebu, takes patience. The plants need time to establish themselves, produce strong vines, and finally begin flowering and setting fruit. During that long waiting period, there were plenty of moments when we wondered how well they would grow and when we would finally be able to taste the result.

Then one day, the first ripe dragon fruit was ready to be picked.

More Than Just a Piece of Fruit

Harvesting fruit from your own land feels different from buying it at the market. You remember planting it. You remember checking the vines, guiding the new growth, and waiting for the first flowers to appear.

That first dragon fruit was more than something to eat. It was proof that the land is slowly becoming productive and that the work we are putting into our homestead is beginning to show results.

We ate some ourselves, shared some with others, and enjoyed the simple satisfaction of tasting something that had grown only a short distance from our home.

Building a Productive Homestead in Cebu

Our goal at De Klomp Santander is not to create a perfect farm overnight. That is why a homestead is not the same as a farm business. We are building everything step by step, learning from the climate, the soil, the animals, and the plants around us.

Dragon fruit is now one of the crops that has successfully produced on our land. More plants are already growing, and we hope future harvests will become larger as the vines continue to mature.

There will undoubtedly be more lessons along the way. Some plants will grow better than expected. Others may struggle. That is all part of life at De Klomp — developing a productive and sustainable homestead in the Philippines, including building a feeding forest.

For now, we are simply happy to celebrate our first dragon fruit harvest.

It started with a cutting, a post, and a little patience. Now it has become another small chapter in the story of De Klomp Santander.