Hello 2016!

By urban farmer -
It has been a long while since my last post. Spent some time on a commercial planting project and that has taken a toll on my time.

My little greenhouse is flourishing and my farming partners and my family have been self sustained on our vegetable supply since 2011. We even managed to supply to other families who share our love for naturally grown, pesticide and additive free vegetables.

We also managed to cut down even further our reliant on off-the-shelf fertilizer. Through active recycling of vegetable waste from our own garden, soybean waste, coffee waste as well as fruit peels to create our own super food for our crops. 

Through careful balancing act, we are able to run all these experiments while maintaining constant crops output for the families that love our greens.  

At the same time, we hope to help more families who inspire to grow their own greens while living in the concrete jungle to do so. So for last 2 years, we have been trying to duplicate the know-how and successes in greenhouse urban farming to high rise urban farming. 

How to achieve similar yield and growth rate with limited direct sun while maintaining cleanliness, tidiness and odourless  so that urban growers can live harmoniously among urban dwellers are the key objectives. 

We are glad to say, we managed to bring green house farming to the next level while extending that success to high rise urban farming. 

We will resume active blogging come Mid april/May 2016. Stay tuned for our updates every Friday Morning.

Just a snap preview of our high rise planting, Japanese Bittergourd.  Enjoy!









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