Singapore: The National Parks Board (NParks) aims to have 3,000 community gardens – up from 1,500 – and 3,000 allotment gardens
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.
By Shabana Begum
Straits Times
Jun 18, 2020
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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 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.
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.
