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9 Best Community Gardens In Singapore For You To Admire Hand-Grown Veggies & Flowers

The sheer number of community gardens we have on this Little Red Dot. There are 1,900 of them across the island.

By Raewyn Koh
The Smart Local
22 Mar 2024

Excerpt:

Kampong Lorong Buangkok may be the last kampong in Singapore but that doesn’t mean the kampong spirit has died down anywhere else. It’s still quite evident at Toh Guan Park Community Garden.

Resident volunteers diligently tend to the multiple plots of veggies that grow here, including brinjal, chye sim, sweet potato leaves, ladies’ fingers, and bananas. It’s a huge plot of land that requires some 65 gardeners to help maintain the place.

The produce is then harvested about once a month, or whenever they’re ready, and sold to whoever wants them. The money collected goes back into buying more fertilisers, gardening tools, and even saplings so the garden continues to thrive.

Address: Next to 286C Toh Guan Road, Singapore 603286
Opening hours: 24 hours, Daily

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