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Sunday, June 28, 2020

Gardening plots to increase twofold by 2030; NParks to give away seed packets to spur growing vegetables at home

PHOTO: Instructions on how to grow the vegetables will come with the packs of seeds.
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SINGAPORE - The number of community plots for gardening enthusiasts will more than double by 2030.

The National Parks Board (NParks) aims to have 3,000 community gardens - up from 1,500 - and 3,000 allotment gardens, a threefold increase from the current level.

Building the new plots will start once the Covid-19 situation improves.
Rows of seedlings grown in an egg tray.
PHOTO: Rows of seedlings grown in an egg tray.
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NParks also launched an initiative on Thursday (June 18) that includes distributing free packets of leafy and fruit vegetable seeds to encourage people to grow produce at home.

You can register for the seed packets on this website or call NParks at 6499 1099 from June 18 to June 30. The packets will be sent by Aug 1.

The initiative, called "Gardening with Edibles", supports Singapore's "30 by 30" goal to produce 30 per cent of its nutritional needs by 2030. The country now imports more than 90 per cent of its food supply.

The initiative is supported by DBS Bank and the Tote Board.

Second Minister for National Development Desmond Lee said: "The potential risk of disruption to our food supply during the Covid-19 situation underscores the importance of our local food farms and growing more food locally, as part of our strategy to strengthen food security and build greater social resilience."

The packets contain seeds for one type of leafy vegetable, one kind of fruit vegetable and instructions in four languages on how to plant them. You can't choose your seeds; the selection will be random.


Rows of seedlings grown in an egg tray.
PHOTO: Rows of seedlings grown in an egg tray.
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They include seeds for veggies such as Chinese cabbage, chye sim, kang kong, tomato, brinjal and lady's finger. They take between four and eight weeks to grow.

Seeds can be planted in egg trays to be developed into seedlings before being transplanted into pots.


 
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Mr Ang Wee Foong, deputy director of nursery management at NParks, noted: "There are sufficient seeds for each household to grow a number of plants for consumption. A family can share extra seeds with friends and relatives who have other types of seeds."

Ms Jennifer Yong, who is in her 40s, started growing herbs and edibles such as Thai basil, bok choy and pea shoots on her patio last year after being inspired by a colleague who is an avid gardener.

Ms Yong, the vice-president of payments and platforms at DBS, buys soil and fertiliser online.

Her children say her Thai basil and pea shoots taste sweeter than store-bought ones.

"Growing edibles at home is fulfilling because it is your own fruit of labour, and you know what you put in the soil. There are no chemicals," said Ms Yong.


Edible plants grown in pots.
PHOTO: Edible plants grown in pots.
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The expansion of community plots and the Gardening with Edibles programme are part of the country's efforts to transition into a city in nature.

But it is not always rosy.

A 2017 Straits Times article reported that there were turf wars in some community gardens, with fruit being stolen and plants trampled. This led to some gardens being locked and prompted some residents to look for other plots.


It is not always rosy.
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Ms Teh Mooi Yan, 52, a gardener of over 40 years, said the increase in community plots may not reduce conflict between residents as tension is usually caused by miscommunication.

"A number of the gardeners are people in their 60s and 70s, and they don't speak English or use WhatsApp to communicate, and so there is a communication barrier," said Ms Teh, a lecturer at Nanyang Polytechnic.

"The only way to solve conflicts is to have face-to-face talk with our neighbours and understand their needs and issues."


Our hearts were created by God to bring forth fruit when His Word is planted in them.
PHOTO: Our hearts were created by God to bring forth fruit when His Word is planted in them. Just as a seed has to remain in the ground over time to germinate, so the Word of God has to abide in us.

Jesus said in John 15:7: “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

This law of seedtime and harvest operates in every area of our lives. If we will plant God’s Word in our hearts, then allow the seed to germinate and the plant to grow to maturity, we will reap the fruit of a harvest. But it is not immediate. We need to plant the seed of His Word in our heart long before we have the fruit of the harvest. Planting the seed of His Word in our heart is the foundation to receiving the promises of God. [2]
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By Shabana Begum, The Straits Times, 19 June 2020 at 09:55 am



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[1] Shabana Begum, The Straits Times, Gardening plots to increase twofold by 2030; NParks to give away seed packets to spur growing vegetables at home, posted on 19 June 2020 at 09:55 am, https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/nparks-distributes-packets-of-seeds-to-encourage-public-to-grow-vegetables-at-home

[2] Andrew Wommack Ministries, God’s Word – the Seed of His Blessing, https://www.awmi.net/reading/teaching-articles/gods_word/
 

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Saturday, June 27, 2020

DBS banks on urban farming and launches own community farm

Source Website: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/dbs-banks-on-urban-farming-and-launches-own-community-farm
By Jessie Lim, The Straits Times, 17 July 2020 at 4:04 pm SGT


Meals with freshly picked produce will be served at the hub's in-house cafeteria.
PHOTO: Meals with freshly picked produce will be served at the hub's in-house cafeteria.
PHOTO: EDIBLE GARDEN CITY
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SINGAPORE - DBS plans to transform one of its buildings into a community farm, and give its employees a chance to try urban farming, it said on Wednesday (June 17).

Touted to be Singapore's first community farm on the premises of a bank, the DBS Food Forest will feature more than 50 varieties of edible plants and herbs that Singaporeans consume every day.

The 46 sq m community farm, outside the DBS Asia Hub building in Changi Business Hub, will be completed in late 2020.


To launch the DBS Food Forest, DBS partnered Edible Garden City.
PHOTO: To launch the DBS Food Forest, DBS partnered Edible Garden City.
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Employees can enjoy vegetables such as sweet potato leaves and herbs like lemongrass for lunch. Meals with freshly picked produce will be served at the hub's in-house cafeteria.

To launch the DBS Food Forest, DBS partnered Edible Garden City, which has developed 240 food gardens over the past seven years. The social enterprise - which specialises in urban farming - is also supported by DBS Foundation.

The community garden, besides giving employees a taste of farm-to-table dining, also comes with eco-friendly features. Waste generated by the in-house cafeteria will be used as fertiliser for the Food Forest. To save water, a waste-efficient drip irrigation system will be installed.

Vice-president for sustainable operations at DBS Loh Lay Kwan said she finds gardening to be very therapeutic, "with everything going on in the world today".


The community garden, besides giving employees a taste of farm-to-table dining, also comes with eco-friendly features. Waste generated by the in-house cafeteria will be used as fertiliser for the Food Forest.
The community garden, besides giving employees a taste of farm-to-table dining, also comes with eco-friendly features. Waste generated by the in-house cafeteria will be used as fertiliser for the Food Forest.
PHOTO: The community garden, besides giving employees a taste of farm-to-table dining, also comes with eco-friendly features. Waste generated by the in-house cafeteria will be used as fertiliser for the Food Forest. To save water, a waste-efficient drip irrigation system will be installed.
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"With the Food Forest, I will be able to literally put food on the table by doing something I enjoy, and I find that to be really meaningful," she added.

The Food Forest will be tended to by the bank's employees who can try their hand at weeding, maintaining, and harvesting produce under the guidance of experts from Edible Garden City.

The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked concerns over food security, and interest in urban farming bloomed during the circuit breaker.


The Food Forest will be tended to by the bank's employees who can try their hand at weeding, maintaining, and harvesting produce under the guidance of experts from Edible Garden City.
The Food Forest will be tended to by the bank's employees who can try their hand at weeding, maintaining, and harvesting produce under the guidance of experts from Edible Garden City.
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A ＄30 million grant was launched in April by the Singapore Food Agency and the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources to increase the productivity of local farms.

Chief executive of Edible Garden City Samuell Ang said: "While they are increasingly common in housing estates and shopping malls, it's not often you find one in a commercial space.

"We hope that more businesses and developers will be inspired by DBS' efforts, and that in the near future we can see similar farms blossoming across commercial properties and business parks."


A $30 million grant was launched in April by the Singapore Food Agency and the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources to increase the productivity of local farms.
A $30 million grant was launched in April by the Singapore Food Agency and the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources to increase the productivity of local farms.
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Farming is backbreaking work, dirty work, detailed work, and, most of all, it is risky work.
Farming is backbreaking work, dirty work, detailed work, and, most of all, it is risky work.
PHOTO: Farming is backbreaking work, dirty work, detailed work, and, most of all, it is risky work. There aren’t any guarantees. Last minute the weather can change, and there is nothing we can do to protect the crop.

To focus on fruitfulness is a frustrating endeavor; to work in faith is all we are asked to do. And it’s really all we can do. Our lives, like the farmer’s, are ongoing and various exercises in learning to trust God despite what we can see today.

When Paul exhorts the Galatian churches toward endurance, he speaks of perennial planting and patient waiting for an inevitable harvest (Galatians 6:9). There is joy in the harvest, and the greatest satisfaction belongs to the one who carefully cultivated it all along the way. The hard-working farmer, as Paul says in 2 Timothy 2:6, is the one “who ought to have the first share of the crops.”

In our work and in our weariness, let us look to the farmer. Let us keep the deep-root, big picture in mind. If we don’t give up, one day we will enjoy the final harvest and its bountiful rewards. Unlike our farming friends, this harvest, one cultivated by faith, is absolutely guaranteed. [2]
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By Jessie Lim, The Straits Times, 17 July 2020 at 4:04 pm SGT






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[1] Jessie Lim, The Straits Times, DBS banks on urban farming and launches own community farm, posted on 17 July 2020 at 4:04 pm SGT, https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/dbs-banks-on-urban-farming-and-launches-own-community-farm

[2] Christine Hoover (@ChristineHoover) is the author of numerous books, Three Lessons from the Farmer About Faith, posted on 16 March 2016, https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/three-lessons-from-the-farmer-about-faith


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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

NParks' garden plots a big hit with Singaporeans

Source Website: http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/nparks-garden-plots-big-hit-singaporeans
By Raffaella Nathan Charles, The New Paper, 08 November 2017 at 06:00 am


All 330 allotment garden plots were snapped up at the second Community Garden Festival in HortPark at the weekend.
PHOTO: All 330 allotment garden plots were snapped up at the second Community Garden Festival in HortPark at the weekend.
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The plan to get Singaporeans gardening and harvesting is off to a flying start.

Two days after the National Parks Board (NParks) announced it was making available 330 allotment garden plots, all have been snapped up.

Gardening enthusiasts formed long snaking queues around the Allotment Garden Booth at the second Community Garden Festival in HortPark at the weekend.
Community farmers at their allotment garden plots at HortPark on Nov 3, 2017
PHOTO: Community farmers at their allotment garden plots at HortPark on Nov 3, 2017 [2]
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By the end of Sunday, all 110 plots in Punggol Park, 60 in Clementi Woods Park, and 160 in HortPark were taken up.

The 2.5 sq m plots allow gardeners of any skill level to grow their own plants, with soil and water provided by NParks.

Individuals simply need their own seeds and tools.
Visitors at the first day of the Community Gardens Festival at HortPark on Nov 3, 2017
PHOTO: Visitors at the first day of the Community Gardens Festival at HortPark on Nov 3, 2017 [2]
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One household is entitled to a plot each.

The plots cost $57 a year and leases are for three years.

Housewife Kelly Orozco is eagerly awaiting the upcoming opening of allotment garden plots in Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park.

NParks plans to open 70 plots there by mid-December, which members of the public can sign up for on their website or at the park's site office.
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The 53-year-old, who lives in Toa Payoh, has a garden at the back of her first-storey HDB flat.

But her plants, especially the edibles, sometimes get stolen or are eaten by pests.

"I want to have the freedom to plant what I want without it getting stolen," she said.

The allotment gardens are considered "a novelty" in land-scarce Singapore.

"Gardening helps me de-stress, so the individual lots will be useful to me. I really hope I manage to apply for one in Bishan," she said.
Community gardeners here have long been enjoying the fruits of their labour and the green pockets they created in their backyards.
PHOTO: Community gardeners here have long been enjoying the fruits of their labour and the green pockets they created in their backyards. Sustaining these gardens near their homes, offices and schools on their own time and expense, these amateur gardeners have impressed the professionals.
To recognise their efforts, the National Parks Board (NParks) has given 15 community gardens each a Diamond Award - a new prize at its biennial Community In Bloom Awards. [3]
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The allotment gardening scheme aims to increase spaces provided to garden and promote edible gardening, in line with NParks' Edible Horticulture Masterplan.

The plan banks on the hot trend of planting edibles: a whopping 80 per cent of over 1,300 NParks' public estate community gardens grow their own fruits and vegetables.

Members of the public can expect more than 1,000 allotment garden plots in 11 parks across the island by 2019.
By Raffaella Nathan Charles, The New Paper, 08 November 2017 at 06:00 am


Retiree Salbiah Osman (above) takes three buses from her Tampines home to reach the community garden in Woodlands Street 81, which has eight plots (above) growing plants such as pandan.
PHOTO: Retiree Salbiah Osman (above) takes three buses from her Tampines home to reach the community garden in Woodlands Street 81, which has eight plots (above) growing plants such as pandan. [3]
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Retiree Salbiah Osman (above) takes three buses from her Tampines home to reach the community garden in Woodlands Street 81, which has eight plots (above) growing plants such as pandan.
PHOTO: Retiree Salbiah Osman (above) takes three buses from her Tampines home to reach the community garden in Woodlands Street 81, which has eight plots (above) growing plants such as pandan. [3]
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Yu Neng Primary 3 pupils Yeo Xiu Ping (above left) and Maybelle Myint (above right) tend their school's garden (left), which uses coffee compost as fertiliser and has small plots for different plant experiments.
PHOTO: Yu Neng Primary 3 pupils Yeo Xiu Ping (above left) and Maybelle Myint (above right) tend their school's garden (left), which uses coffee compost as fertiliser and has small plots for different plant experiments. [3]
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Big on recycling: The community garden in Jurong's Chinese Garden uses plastic bottles (above) and old shoes (above left, with volunteer Madam Ang Hor Cheoh) as containers for plants.
PHOTO: Big on recycling: The community garden in Jurong's Chinese Garden uses plastic bottles (above) and old shoes (above left, with volunteer Madam Ang Hor Cheoh) as containers for plants. [3]
PHOTOS: Lim Yao Hui, The Straits Times
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Big on recycling: The community garden in Jurong's Chinese Garden uses plastic bottles (above) and old shoes (above left, with volunteer Madam Ang Hor Cheoh) as containers for plants.
PHOTO: Big on recycling: The community garden in Jurong's Chinese Garden uses plastic bottles (above) and old shoes (above left, with volunteer Madam Ang Hor Cheoh) as containers for plants. [3]
PHOTOS: Lim Yao Hui, The Straits Times
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Big on recycling: The community garden in Jurong's Chinese Garden uses plastic bottles (above) and old shoes (above left, with volunteer Madam Ang Hor Cheoh) as containers for plants.
PHOTO: Big on recycling: The community garden in Jurong's Chinese Garden uses plastic bottles (above) and old shoes (above left, with volunteer Madam Ang Hor Cheoh) as containers for plants. [3]
PHOTOS: Lim Yao Hui, The Straits Times
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Teacher Wu Liying and her young charges from Ang Mo Kio My First Skool tend the award-winning garden (left) outside their school. Besides ornamental dishes filled with fish, flowering plants (above) also dot the plot.
PHOTO: Teacher Wu Liying and her young charges from Ang Mo Kio My First Skool tend the award-winning garden (left) outside their school. Besides ornamental dishes filled with fish, flowering plants (above) also dot the plot. [3]
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Reference
[1] Raffaella Nathan Charles, The New Paper, NParks' garden plots a big hit with Singaporeans, posted on 08 November 2017 at 06:00 am, http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/nparks-garden-plots-big-hit-singaporeans

[2] Raffaella Nathan Charles, The Straits Times, Keen gardeners can now rent spaces at parks to grow their own crops, posted on 03 November 2017 at 4:51 pm SGT, http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/environment/keen-gardeners-can-now-rent-spaces-at-parks-to-grow-their-own-crops

[3] Natasha Ann Zachariah, The Straits Times, Green plots for young and old among Community In Bloom award winners, posted on 05 Jul 2014 at 1:05 pm SGT, http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/home-design/green-plots-for-young-and-old-among-community-in-bloom-award-winners
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