Published February 19, 2021, 9:32 AM
How this designer by trade came to realize that her work in fashion need not be inconsistent with her personal advocacy as champion of the good Earth
Eight years ago, Hindy Weber met an albino carabao in Chiang Mai. It was a meeting most probably predestined, for which she might have prepared since 2007 when she and her husband Gippy Tantoco set up a small backyard farm, Holy Carabao, because they wanted to make sure they knew where their food was coming from or since 2009 when, leaving nothing behind, she and her family moved out of the city and into the farm, where she and Gippy and their four children now spend each day of their lives, often barefoot on the soil, free as the wind from the distractions of urban living. It was while learning to plant rice, the final step to living in a farm, though she had long been growing her own food before then, that Hindy met the albino carabao.