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From Community Farming to Community Research

Enter the Goodman Community Farm — a community space for ageing well.Since 2019, Cultivate Central and the Goodman Arts Centre have nurtured the Goodman Community Farm as a shared community space. Here, permaculture practitioners, artis...

Cultivating Change EP#5 Research Notes with Elyssa Kaur Ludher

In this episode, we explore the intersection between climate change, food security, and sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia with policy researcher Elyssa Kaur Ludher. She is currently a Visiting Fellow with the Climate Change for Southeast Asia...

Cultivating Change EP#1 Captain Zakaria

In this two-part episode, we speak to retired Navy major Captain Zakaria Kamantasha who started a 10-acre organic paddy farm in a rural area of Sik district in Kedah, Malaysia. #1, Part 1: Creating a Model Paddy Farm ...

Social Permaculture: The Better Eat Better Movement

We’ve been working on the The Better Eat Better project with 3Pumpkins’ Tak Takut Kids Club (TTKC) for just over a year. Using permaculture design methods, we’ve helped shape, identify and formulate spaces, strategies and systems for a site spe...

Building a Site Specific Health Movement - A Permaculture Designer's Journey

Update 1: Better Eat Better MovementA collaborative children’s food health project How it All Began… In 2022, we embarked on a journey to practise permaculture design with the Tak Takut Kids Club (TTKC) by 3Pumpkins. As part of the year’...

Cultivating Connections: The Transformation of Goodman Community Farm

"Much of the current environmental movement is driven by fear of doom and disaster. That cannot be the right motivation for a truly sustainable future. Love and reverence for the Earth will automatically result in sustainability, coherence and harmon...

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 ...