The Forest Club was a dream into which Tony Mercado placed effort, resources, careful planning and, it must be said, a sense of joy. He acquired the property in 1992. Assisted by good soil, good rainfall and tree experts from the UP Los Banos campus, he liked to say that the birds did all the planting, so abundantly did everything grow.Within only three years, what used to be a rice field became a burgeoning forest. Tony had reason to say that he was happiest in this little corner of the earth, in which he also worked the hardest,
