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Category: Natural Farming EN

CULTIVATING A SHARING COMMUNITY

As part of the global Green Action Week campaign to promote sustainable consumption, on 9 October 2021 CAP conducted an online sharing event, “Learn How to Grow Herbs & Simple Ways of Using Herbs in Daily Cuisine”. During the event, women shared their urban gardening ventures, and youths shared tips on how to make herbal drinks, grow mung bean sprouts, and create flower pots from coconut...
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“YOU DON’T NEED A BIG SPACE TO START AN URBAN GARDEN”

Urban Gardening: Interview 5 It’s been almost a year since Aziwan bin Ali and his wife started growing herbs, vegetables, fruit trees and flowers in the vicinity of their home in Sungai Jawi on mainland Penang. Today 5 types of herbs; as well as limau kasturi and amra trees thrive in their garden. The mango tree that his mother planted bears many fruits. About 6-7 types of vegetables which they...
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“IT’S GOOD FOR MENTAL & PHYSICAL HEALTH”

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...
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Green Action Week @ CAP: A Sharing Community is A Caring Community

  The theme for Green Action Week (GAW) 2021 is “Sharing Community”.  This year the 26 GAW campaigns run by organizations from 22 countries across four regions promote the importance of sharing and collaboration within local communities to reduce unsustainable consumption globally. GAW is a global campaign to promote sustainable consumption across the globe through awareness-raising,...
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“FEWER DOCTOR VISITS, THANKS TO OUR HERBAL GARDEN”

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,...
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“I GROW MY OWN NUTRITIOUS ULAM – AND GET TO BOND WITH MY KIDS”

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...
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“I GET TO EAT SAFE & CHEMICAL-FREE FOOD”

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...
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