Root crop and vegetable farming in the mountain barangays around Canlaon. In Canlaon, the mountain city on Kanlaon’s slopes, the highest farming country on the island. Cassava, camote, gabi and ube are the fallback staple in the uplands here — boiled as merienda, and the base of kakanin and budbud. Native siling labuyo grows in backyards rather than fields: small, fiercely hot, sold by the heap in the market.