Singapore: Urban farms: Meet local growers at City Sprouts’ Farm Day Out
“We want to showcase the diverse ways people can grow and farm and show how easy it is to be involved in growing your own food,” he said.
By Clara Lock
Straits Times
Dec 22, 2020
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Urban farming has taken root here in recent years, with hobbyists growing herbs along corridors, in community gardens and soon even on HDB carpark rooftops. If you are not sure where to start, City Sprouts’ bi-monthly Farm Day Out may offer some inspiration.
Organised by social enterprise City Sprouts at its Henderson Road farm Sprout Hub, it is a chance for the public to interact with about 35 commercial and hobbyist farmers, who rent plots in greenhouses.
While the farm welcomes visitors daily, it is only during the open house that most farmers will be there to introduce their crops and growing methods.
These include aquaponics, in which waste produced by reared fish supplies the nutrients for plants; and aeroponics, in which plant roots grow in the air and are watered by a nutrient solution mist.
Some farmers rear chickens, while others grow strawberries and medical mushrooms such as cordyceps and lingzhi.
