Singapore: Seven bus stops transformed into urban farms; all vegetables to be donated to local charity kitchen
The structure for the urban farms was created around existing six-sheet shells, which are typically used for advertisements at bus stops.
By Vanessa Lim
Channel News Asia
Dec 17, 2021
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The vegetables will be tended by a team of 50 gardening enthusiasts from the community every week.
Crops that are ready to be harvested at the end of each week will be taken from the bus stops and delivered to Willing Hearts, a charity kitchen that prepares and distributes 9,500 meals daily to beneficiaries in Singapore.
The team will replace the harvested vegetables with new vegetables at a different stage of growth, until they are ready to be harvested as well.
GIC said the bus stops were chosen for their “traffic and visibility” to raise awareness about sustainable food production.
