Eats, Shoots & Roots

Yesterday’s garden bounty of banana, papaya, malabar spinach, pea eggplant, long beans, lemongrass, jicama. Super easy growing, no fuss needed, Malaysian-drought-proof, available all year round!

Choppity chop chop — Steffen and Irvin hard at work mulching our neighbour-facing garden bed with a first layer nitrogen-rich materials consisting of freshly chopped banana stems cleared from another part of the garden; turning garden refuse into something of use! Second layer will consist of carbon rich stuff, which Read more…

Matt and Isabelle from @PioneersPost, a UK-based online magazine on social businesses, came by to visit us today and brought their furry friend along too for a bit of recording…

The chicken coop on site is ready to go, but we haven’t gotten around to getting the chickens yet. Our neighbours are not so convinced about chickens in the urban neighbourhood, so we decided to test it out with a mock chicken first. (No children nor chickens were harmed in Read more…

So a drone by the name of @sceneskypictures wandered into our garden today and spied on us from the top…!

Wrapping up a full-on week of gardening with a video shoot in the garden by the “Let’s Talk” crew, for the episode on sustainability. Soon to be aired on TV this June. Pictured here, the host, Nash and director, Yusmal, with the bounty of the day. Big thanks to all Read more…

Yeow and Fei putting our wood scraps to good use by turning them into garden signs for better garden navigation. Just so visitors don’t end up getting composted in the banana pit 🙂

Sundays have become our unofficial gardening days, when we hang out and do seeding, planting, watering, mulching, eating, chilling, chatting, and most of all harvesting! Today’s bounty was picked off the fence by Afif who used his climbing skills to scale the wall and get us our petolas! Ping us Read more…

To celebrate Chinese New Year we got down to putting on the finishing later of linseed oil + turpentine + beeswax on the bottles & cob kitchen counter as well as the oven! With big thanks to Su Mei, our beeswax contributor, Rubén, Belina, Jac, Rizal, Aede and Awi. Sour Read more…

Had a lovely surprise visit from Shamala of British Council, who brought her mum to get some bounty from the garden! Harvest of the day included the steady Brazilian spinach, kunyit, tulsi and hyacinth beans. Great to feel and share the love.

Snapshot from last weekend in the garden: Potting up more mix to start some seedlings in the nursery with Siew Yeen, Beat, FilmmakersAnonymous, Lynn (who was standing on this side of the table!) and Ben (who was in the garden busy harvesting papayas)

Today, we will be exploring with harnessing the power of chili, ginger and garlic to ward the pests (and possibly some squirrels) away from the veggies.