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Urban Gardening: Interview 4 Ex-secondary school teacher Ms Pua Yoke Fang started a small but sustainable compact garden in her Island Glades home in Penang upon her retirement 2 years ago. Over the past year, the many stages of pandemic-related Movement Control Orders had given her more time at home, which she fully used to expand her little garden. An avid gardener, she grows vegetables in all...

Urban Gardening: Interview 3 Retired teacher Selvi Singgaram has plenty to share about her backyard garden, where a wide variety of plants – from vegetables to medicinal herbs – are grown. Her husband, Kanthabalan Ramiah, started the garden about 3 years ago. Since then all her family members have been fully involved in maintaining the garden. “We grow vegetables namely white brinjal,...

Urban Gardening: Interview 2 Karina Yong has a flourishing vegetable and ulam garden in the backyard of her city home. She harvests what she grows to make lemuni rice, masak lemak (with moringa leaves), herbal drinks and other dishes without having to buy the plant ingredients from the market. All together she has cultivated 4 plots of various plants in her garden. One plot is filled with herbs...

Urban Gardening: Interview 1 Mageswari Sangaralingam and family of Taman Pekaka, Gelugor have over 30 types of plants – vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and flowers – some of them grown during the latest lockdown. The white brinjals, okra, kangkung, green chillies, bittergourd, pumpkin, Malabar spinach, cekur manis, kesum, turmeric, ginger, serai and limau kasturi; and mint, pandan and curry...

Modern living and urban way of life, with its culture of mass produced foods, have caused people to forget where their food comes from. Not only that, there’s a lack of healthy food in today’s generation of fast foods and instant meals. Urban gardening is one of the best ways to get safe, healthy and nutritious food for your family. Fruits, vegetables and herbs can be grown organically –...