Demo on Urban Vegetable Farming & Hands-on Preparation of Vegetable Bed

3 Oct 2017

Demo on using compost to grow vegetables by our very own RA SS20 Central Chairman, Mr NK Leong and hands-on preparation of vegetable beds.

Lots of excitement for young and old at the Gardening Club Meeting as the residents got their hands dirty digging into the soil, preparing the bed and sowing the seeds. Everyone was brimming with delight when they went home with their planter boxes with freshly sown vegetable seeds. Great family bonding and community integration. Planter boxes, soil and seeds were all provided by the RA.

Snacks included sandwiches and blue jelly made from homegrown bunga telang for natural colouring, specially prepared by Carole Loke of the Social Committee. 

Ended with gifts for all the children who had adopted the Tecoma trees in the Central Zone field.

Till the next Gardening Club meeting when we see the fruits of our labour!

 

    

 

RA SS20 Central goes green

An informative talk that advocates organic gardening and composting was given by Miss Tan Siew Luang, Organic Farming Project Coordinator from the Centre of Environment, Technology & Development, Malaysia (CETDEM). 

The event, organized by the RA SS20 Central was held at Cabin 8, Central Zone on Saturday morning, 8 Nov 2014.

Present at the event were YB Yeo Bee Yin, MBPJ Councillor Tang, Pn Zaharah Osman, CEO of KPJ Damansara and other hospital personnel, MBPJ officers from Environmental Health Dept and also from the Landscape and Urban Greening Department, Sgt Mat Din and his patrol team, Pn Eileen Thong, RT SS20 Chairman and some members of Bandar Utama RA.

Miss Tan Siew Luang of CETDEM

Organic waste, from the kitchen and the garden, makes up close to 50% of waste generated by the Malaysian household which will usually end up in a landfill. As the organic material rots in the landfill, the greenhouse gas, methane is released. Scientists have linked the increased release of methane into the evironment with global warming. To help address this, we can start composting.