03/12/2013
Timberland Heights
- offer mountain suburban lifestyle embraced by the best of nature. Only 15minutes away from Quezon City, it feels like a world away with its cool climate, breathtaking mountainscape and picturesque views of the city.
- Renew your senses. Get back to basics. Reintroduce yourself to a life lived in harmony with nature. Close to the city, but a world away from the traffic, noise, and bright lights, you’ll find Timberland Sports & Nature Club.
- Experience exclusive mountain resort where you and your family can commune with nature within the comforts of your home.
Agroforestry
- Agroforestry Center Protects and Sustains Ecological Balance
- The entire estates of Timberland Heights, especially the farming communities of the Mandala Residential Farm Estates, will reap the long-term benefits of a preserved and balanced ecological system with the establishment of its own Agroforestry Center.
- The Institute of Agroforestry of the University of the Philippines Los Baños Foundation, Inc. (UPLBFI) is providing technical assistance in putting up and operating the Timberland Heights Agroforestry Center (AFC).
- Through various training courses, seminars and other fora, AFC ensures that agroforestry, a land-use management system that combines production of trees with agricultural crops, animals and other resources, will increase or sustain productivity in the estate while maintaining its ecological stability.
- This means residents will continuously enjoy clean and fresh mountain air, lush vegetation and forest cover, adequate water supply and erosion-free environment, as more trees, vegetables and crops are grown in the estate.
- Hobby-farmers, on the other hand, will literally reap the benefits from cultivating nature’s bounty on their farms with the expert advice and technical facilities of the Agroforestry Demonstration Farm and Training Center (ATC) and formal instructions given by the Agroforestry Learning Laboratory (ALL). Both are managed and run by AFC.
- AFC also operates the estate’s agroforestry nursery and the 80-hectare stretch of protected natural sites called Greenways, which consist of wooden vales, forest parks and sheltered glades that will become centers of nature-based activities.
- At the Greenways, families can strengthen their bond or spend a relaxing weekend together without even leaving the town. They can indulge in trekking, camping, biking, horseback riding, climbing and rappelling, among other sports. Swimming, fishing and other water sports are possible in areas with a lagoon or a pond. There are four waterfalls within the estate.
Manila Waldorf School
One of the fastest growing non-traditional education movements in the world
- The holistic development of the young’s “hand, heart and head” as espoused by the Waldorf educational movement has found its perfect home in the country’s premier mountain resort town. The Timberland Heights Rudolf Steiner School has open its doors in 2009 on a one-hectare land donated by Filinvest Land, Inc. to the Manila Waldorf School, Inc. (MWSI), which presently runs the Manila Waldorf School.
- “Timberland Heights is an ideal location, considering how its natural and pollution-free surroundings are such an integral part of the Waldorf philosophy and curriculum,” said MWSI Board of Trustees Chairman Antonio Q. Montemayor. MWSI will establish a fully integrated pre-school, grade school and high school program on a single campus at Timberland Heights within five years from the start of its operations.
- The programs will be implemented in two phases with the first phase covering the high school and the second phase covering its pre-school or kindergarten and grade school for a maximum student population of 400.
- The Waldorf/Steiner movement, founded in 1919 by the Austrian scientist and educator, Dr. Rudolf Steiner, is one of the fastest growing nontraditional education movements in the world. There are more than 800 Steiner schools in 60 countries worldwide. Its educational philosophy is based on the developmental stages of childhood and adolescence.
- In the country, the Manila Waldorf School has grown from a single kindergarten class of ten in 1994 to its present size of about 200 students enrolled from pre-school to high school with campuses located in Quezon City. It is recognized by the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland as an authentic Waldorf or Steiner school.
