Importing of food from other countries is extremely expensive because it relies heavily on Natural Gas Based Fertilisers and Oil Based Pesticides and Huge Amount of oil base machines for ploughing, seeding, harvesting, transporting (Sea, Land, and Air) and electricity to store the food for freshness and plastic (oil) to package it to be suitable for your local supermarket.
It’s logical to find ways to grow our own food for local consumption and it’s cheaper too. The only problem is lack of space for crops; therefore we must experiment with growing indoors in our high rise flats.
This is a new Urban Farm Project started on 15th May 2006 ends 20th May 2006.
Using Ikea’s plastic container that have a tiny hole at the centre of the container to drain the excess water.
The green bean started to grow within 24 hours on the wet cotton wool.
Unfortunately, I had missed the harvesting date by 1 day as the best date to harvest is when the leaves is about to sprout out. (I only discover this after I made the mistake)
However, this had proved that indoor urban farming is very possible solution for cheap sustainable lifestyle for all Singaporeans. All we need is a lot of trial and error NOW and play around with soil, fertilizer, seeds, water (timing and amount), sunlight direction and some time to play around with.
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