Operation Santa Claus: Hong Kong children try their hand at harvesting vegetables at Sino Group’s rooftop farm
20 children from underprivileged families gathered on the rooftop farm of an office tower in Hong Kong.
By Ziyu Zhang
South China Morning Post
Dec 21, 2021
Excerpt:
The rooftop of Sino Group’s Skyline Tower in Kowloon Bay has been transformed into an urban farm which grows a variety of crops including cherry tomatoes, winter melon, aubergines and other seasonal vegetables.
“I had so much fun harvesting the kale just now,” said Chan Ho-ching, nine, who had come to the farm with her twin sister Chan Ho-ying.
The sisters followed instructions from the Sino Group staff on how to harvest the kale, picking fistfuls of leaves from the bottom section of the plant and discarding the torn ones. They were careful to avoid picking the buds at the top so the plant could continue growing.
The twins also asked the group’s staff where they could buy kale seeds so they could plant them at home. “We like kale when our mother stir-fries it. Maybe someday we can eat what we have planted,” they said.
