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How To Make Your Own All Natural Body Scrub

Did you know you can put together your own self-care body scrub yourself? Here's how we made our own DIY body scrub from organic ingredients from our community farm. With herb-infused coconut oil, sugar, and botanicals, it is a luxurious self-ca...

Tang Yuan in Fingerroot-Soy Milk Soup (Garden to Table Part 2 of 3)

I'll have to be honest with you, I'm not a fan of ginger. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate ginger. But often, I find myself shying away from dishes which contain ginger. I think my avoidance of ginger is not necessarily a bad thing. Ever since ...

Finger root prawn and vegetable skewers (Garden to table part 1 of 3)

Finger root. I love how it’s name describes how it looks when ready to harvest. However, nothing in its name told me about the flavour profile of this homegrown gem. The first thing I did to try and understand what the flavour of the finger root...

How can composting be made accessible to children and their communities?

I love watching children learn. I love how they will unravel new discoveries from a small nudge, if we give them time. I love seeing how infectious the buzz to share it with others is with children. I love how learning grows for me in as much as it d...

Why should composting be a fundamental part of our conversations with children?

As an educator, I’ve lived though the joy of crafting a project curriculum around the interest of the children because that’s when they are the most invested in the project. Children are at an incredible life stage- once they see, understand and ...

I am Growing Food – So What?

Giving Time for Abundance People don’t realize, including me previously, that gardening is a skill set and has a lot of science that goes into it. I am here, possibly like you, a novice urban gardener. There is a lot that happens underground in so...

Colours From Our Garden

One of the first things I did when I first moved to Singapore was sign up for woodworking class with the Sustainable Living Lab. I loved it and would travel to then Bottle Tree Park, Sembawang for classes until I broke one of my fingers and had to ta...

Gardening and Beyond!

What have we been up to at The Good Garden? It's been three months since Cultivate Central launched The Good Garden! So I'm taking a moment to take stock and share our upcoming plans. We've been busy. We've cooked six compost heaps, we are slowly g...