Monday, May 28, 2012

BEFORE & AFTER

Typical Community Garden - Community in Bloom Project

Nov' 11
Take over and manage the land - Collaboration project with Tampines Ville RC. 
The above pictures took me 1 month to clear away all vegetations, weeds, trees within the permitted boundary.

Dec' 11   
 
Plan and execute the plant bed - the soil is very sandy with little or organic matters.

Jan' 12  

Kang Kong awaiting to be harvested
Work closely with the volunteers, mentors to produce our 1st batch of veggies

Jan'12
 Expanding our operation to more variety.

Feb'12 - April'12
Selling the Pesticide Free Veggies to Generation Green Interest Group.


 
The interest group keep growing and growing. Now we have an estimated 120 residents supported Generation Green Urban Farming Project.

April'12 - Space Limitation

Generation Green management team decided to upgrade the exisiting farm.
Objective - To increase the productivity by another 30%.

GM Engineering was consulted.

Upgrading in progress....buying the material.


Getting and coordinating skill workers to construct the green house structure.

The structure is up.

Green house erected after 3 weeks of hard works with GM engineering.

9th May'12 - Production begin (Preparation of plant bedding)

Awaiting to be planted.

11th of May - Transplanting the seedling from the seedling bay to the production bay.

18th of May - Fertilizing and watering (Week 1 after transplanting)


25th of May -  Fertilizing and watering (Week 2 after transplanting)


What will happen to the veggies if the veggies will to left to grow for another week?

Pek Chye

Chinese Cabbage

Harvesting  - 3rd of June.



Thank you for all the support!!!

Special Thank:

Goverment (PAP)
1) Tampines Ville Adviser - Mr Heng
2) Tampines Ville RC Chairman and all committee member.
3) People Association
4) Tampines Town Council
5) N-park
6) NEA
7) HPB
8) North East CDC

Associate:
9) Taylor Stanley (Singapore) Pte Ltd
10) GM Engineering
11) Wang Yuen Fish Soup




Sunday, May 20, 2012

Friday, May 18, 2012

Harvesting Bitter Gourd for WANG YUEN FISH SOUP

Big And Juicy Bitter Gourd supplied to WANG YUEN FISH SOUP 

 

It can grow up to 800g.

WANG YUEN FISH SOUP is manage by GENERATION GREEN

Our 1st Production of Veggies under Green Hs

Total 7 beds.


Production in progress - Chinese cabbage, HK Chye Sim, Pek Chye & Kale

Newly sprouted kale - awaiting to be transplanted to other beds.

Will post updated pics when the veggies is about to harvest.

Managed by Generation Green

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Kale helps detoxification

Happen to read up an article with regards to optimise brain function, kale (Kai Lan) helps with detoxification of blood which helps the brain to function better too!http://www.naturalnews.com/027166_brain_foods_food.html

Friday, May 11, 2012

Calcium from Kai Lan

According to Health Promotion Board, 100gram of Kai Lan consist of 195mg of Calcium!!! We need bone support for life, so you know what to eat from now.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

China probing claims of toxic cabbage: official

Another food safety scare, and really hope that no one had consumed those. Also, heard from the news that Singapore is not importing the cabbage from the mentioned place.

For more information, please refer to http://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-probing-claims-toxic-cabbage-official-071407910.html

Saturday, May 5, 2012