Getting Your Feet Wet - Villa Escudero
April 10th 2014 "Villa Escudero is a self-contained working coconut plantation. It was founded in the 1880s by Don Placido Escudero and his wife Dona Claudia Marasigan. Originally planted to sugarcane, the crop was converted to coconut by their son Don Arsenio Escudero in the early 1900s. A pioneering agro-industrialist, he built the country's first working hydroelectric plant to supply his dessicated coconut fac
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