It’s not often in Singapore that one can boast about sharing a meal with the farmer who grew the vegetables that are on your plate. Yet there we were, breaking bread with Singapore’s new crop of urban farmers, all bent on proving that it is possible to grow and eat our own produce in this concrete jungle.
On our plates were a mix of locally- grown abalone and willow mushrooms tossed with red spinach gleaned from the very first harvest by Comcrop, an urban farming initiative whose pilot plot is a 400 square foot aquaponics test farm in the National Youth Council Academy Greens.
Having successfully grown this maiden crop of edible vegetables, Comcrop will soon move into a 6,000 square foot commercial farm in the heart of Orchard Road, on the rooftop of *SCAPE. Here, the plan is to grow up to 15,000 fresh vegetables each month, which will be sold to restaurants across the island. So much then, for the old excuse that there isn’t enough land in Singapore to grow our own food.
“We need to build our food resilience as a country. We shouldn’t have to be so dependent on importing our food supplies,” said Allan Lim, co-founder of The Living Project, the social enterprise that sponsors Comcrop.
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