Eats, Shoots & Roots

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Mari Market Madness on Sunday. Was a pretty full on 8 hours of merry making

Pick n Mix Seed Boxes going all sorts of places at yesterday’s Mari Market at Art Printing Works.

Stir-Fry Seed Box, all set to go! Specially assembled by Christmas elves. Find us at Mari Market, Art Printing Works, Jalan Riong, Bangsar today (14 Dec), 10am – 6pm or buy online at shop@eatsshootsandroots.org

And right after our whirlwind of our morning, our Seed Boxed are ready for tomorrow’s Mari Market! Come pop by our booth, get a couple of seed boxes for friends, spread the love… 😉 Art Printing Works, Jalan Riong, Bangsar. 10am – 6pm, see you there!

Walking through our front garden with folks from the Selangor and Federal Territory Gardening Society, and explaining why we converted our hugel bed into a normal raised bed. Though a hugel bed gives you more planting space, we found that with the massive tropical thunderstorms we get here in Malaysia, Read more…

Selangor and Federal Territory Gardening Society popped by today for a visit; one of the largest crowds we’ve had at out garden in a while! Pictured here, only three quarters of the group. The society has been around for 50++ years (big applause) and organise talks & visits regularly. www.sftgs.org.my

And the very first Seed Box goes to Anais, thanks to our wonderful Nicaraguan sales division, Angela 🙂

Some seeds sprouting in our test peat pellets, coming up just in time for the market. Time to snippety the extras though!

Seed madness! Today’s Christmas elves working on filling up the seed packs for Mari Market this Sunday. Big help from the wonderful bunch: Ella, Briani Kwan, Lloyd and Zoe! Lots of new learnings from Lloyd with his experience in horticulture. Seed filling has never been so fun 😉

Crop Quiz! What are these pink tubers that we just pulled out from the garden called? Hint: It has yellow flesh on the inside, and was best eaten thoroughly cooked…

Reuniting with Michel Fanton from Seedsavers Australia almost 3 years after our launch in 2012. Been a whirlwind of a time and we say… bring on 2015! Pictured at our favourite otak-otak joint run by our good friend Baba Low of The Straits Food Company.

We are usually really precious with the papayas in our garden even though they come on their own without any planning from us. But because of the heavy rains recently, our happiest papaya tree fell over (narrowly and perhaps consciously missing Luka in the process!). Which resulted in this bountiful Read more…

Snapshots from our No-Dig Gardening workshop with GrowTong founder Harbir Gill. Collected heaps of free resources from around the neighbourhood (nicely bagged dried leaves, green gardening trimmings) to get the sheet mulching process going. No diggity!

Char happily counting ground nuts we dug out from the ground. Ground peanuts are awesome perennials because they make for good ground cover, have pretty yellow flowers and are also nitrogen fixers! Oh, they also taste very yummy. We are currently experimenting growing ground nuts with corn together in a Read more…

The GrowTongs have landed! Prepping for this Saturday’s (18 Oct) workshop on No-Dig Gardening with Harbir Gill. We will be flipping the concept of ‘waste’ into ‘resources’, and making use of neighbourhood materials to make new garden beds. Only a few places left, join us with a friend (or two) Read more…