Rooftop farms: integrating agriculture into our green roofs
In Yale-NUS, where I live, rooftops can be quite a contested space. A few years ago, several Environmental Studies (ES) students advocated for the installation of solar panels on the College’s un-used roof spaces. The months of back-and-forth resulted in an impasse, and some unfortunate tensions between the Infrastructural Office (Infra) and the students. Ultimately,…
What have I learned about taking care of my own UA plot: Responsibility, care and nuance
I’ve learned a fair amount of technical knowledge in the course of taking care of my plot. As detailed in my previous blogpost, the workshops we’ve attended have helped me understand farming techniques and knowledge. Over the course of this semester, I’ve tried to use some of them in my own UA plot However, I…
Health
In the past few weeks, our class has had the privilege of visiting the Jurong Community Garden, as well as farms in private and public school campuses. We attended a masterclass on permaculture with Chingwei from Foodscape Collective, and one on soil health by Mr Tang. Through these sessions, I’ve learned quite a lot about…
Planting seeds for social justice 🙂
from 6 Feb 2021 From tackling the climate crisis to social justice, UA can be hailed as a wonderful solution for people in cities (which is most of us, after all). I’m eager to support UA as a justice movement the most! That said, we must be cautioned against overstating the scale of UA’s tangible…
why urban agriculture?
My gardening journey begins with the Covid-19 pandemic: being indoors so much meant that I had to come up with more ways to keep physical environment more exciting. With some encouragement from my peers, I was inspired to acquire some houseplants for my college dorm. Around the same time, NParks launched gardening campaign where they…
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