Eats, Shoots & Roots

Our seventh session with for their Garden For Impact Programme. Our volunteers got to let loose while they tilled soil, and sharpen their precision as they planted padi. After the planting session, they also gave us a hand in cooking up some EM with Mexican suflower leaves, before sitting down for a lovely lunch cooked up by the mums at . For being such a golden bunch to work with, we gave them some flowers to take home too! 🌼

Wanna experience more about planting, growing, and other aspects of urban farming? Get in touch to learn more about programmes at SITC! 🌱☀️

A garden we set up a couple of years back – a great example of how you can grow abundance even in the city. In urban or housing areas where development has depleted ground soil and made it tough for new growth, raised beds do the trick, allowing for fruitful harvests. 🌸🌱

What has your experience been with growing in containers? Let us know in the comments!

Selom-at Hari Raya! 🌙✨

We'd like to give our thanks for every harvest gathered, every seed sown, and every hand that's helped our garden grow. May your holidays be filled with friends, family, grounding gratitude, and plenty to share with those around you. 💚

Looking back at our Edible Gardening workshops with earlier in the year. Across different states (and highways), it was a joy to see people getting their hands dirty without hesitation, and leaf-ing with something to nurture.

To our delight, some of the participants had come for our workshops from the previous years as well, and happily reported on the condition of the plants they'd gotten from the last one!

If you've ever joined any of our workshops, have you managed to keep your plants growing since then? Let us know in the comments! 🌱✨

The edible garden we set up with SJKC Wangsa Maju has grown a long way! 🌱💛

What started as a neglected plot of land is now a lush green space behind the school, with fruiting chili bushes and papaya already in flower. As part of the Sayur in the City School Programme, we worked together with teachers to set up the garden and give them the training they would need to turn it into a learning space for the kids.

Gardens like this help educate the younger generation and reconnect them with nature, giving students a chance to see, grow, and learn about where food comes from. You can check out the full case study, now up on our website.

If you're interested in bringing a garden like this to your school or community, partner with us and lets grow more learning gardens together! 🌿🧑‍🏫

With Aidilfitri around the corner, let's celebrate with a little giveaway! There are many ways to show our gratitude for the world we were created in, and sometimes it can start with something as simple as a seed. 🌱✨

🎁 EIGHT of our Seed Sampul Sets are up for grabs, and here's how you can get one of your own:

1. Follow on Instagram

2. Share this post to your story (make sure your account is public) and tag

3. In your story, tell us what's your favourite edible plant used in Raya food!

🎉 The winners will be chosen on the 19th of March

📍Pick up your prize at ESR's HQ @ Bukit Damansara

Special thanks to for sponsoring our giveaway!

In partnership with , HLB Impact's Garden For Impact Programme brought volunteers to to do some hard morning labour. After a theory session on farm maintenance, our volunteers got to work, raking up dried leaves, mulching, and adding EM to our compost piles to give them a microbial boost.

Lunch was served by , an organisation that empowers underprivileged mothers by teaching them the skills they need to become micro-entrepreneurs. Our volunteers were also gracious enough to make sure our chickens got their lunch too! 🐔

Wanna experience more about planting, growing, and other aspects of urban farming? Get in touch to learn more about programmes at SITC! 🌱☀️

It started with a narrow strip of land, a tall building, and one idea from above. 🌱

When the CEO of Malaysian Re looked down from the top of the company's building in Bukit Damansara, he imagined something different for that small space: more greenery, more life, and a way to bring a bit of the forest back into the city.

Together, we transformed it into an edible garden using syntropic agroforestry methods, planting in layered systems that mimic how a natural forest grows. We also set up biopore composting bins to help regenerate the soil there and keep the cycle going.

From an overlooked space to a thriving green corner, thank you Malaysian Re for working with us to create Rimbun in the City! 🌿🌳

Behind-the-scenes with the women of SATU RASA, in partnership with .

Chef Kamala knows how to bring out the flavours of the ingredients she cooks with – but beyond that, she knows how to bring out the potential in her students. Over the course of their programme, the girls of the Vocational Training and Opportunity Centre (VTOC) have both honed their skills in the kitchen and transformed as individuals.

Not only did they work from dawn to prepare the SATU RASA spread, but they also shared the story behind each dish in their mother tongues – English, Bahasa Melayu, Mandarin, Tamil, Semai, and Temiar – speaking with newfound confidence forged through months of camaraderie and culinary trials. Joining us at the table after their speeches, they showed us that food, culture, and laughter are all best when shared.

Thank you to the students of the VTOC for all that you’ve shared with us! 👩‍🍳💚

The dishes of SATU RASA! This years Farm-to-Table celebrated the rich diversity of flora on our farm, and of cuisine from the land we call home.

Starting with our take on Yee Sang, the Ulam Lou Sang was fish-free to accomodate our vegetarian buffet. Vibrant, fresh ulams were tossed together in a communal celebration, symbolising abundance and new beginnings.

Kung Pao Jackfruit was a vegetarian take on a Chinese classic, served up with fragrant ghee rice and a traditional sayur lodeh. The Okra Raitha was a beautifully plated fan-favourite that vanished from the buffet table in minutes. To finish off our banquet, we had refreshing cincau jelly and hearty banana cake for dessert.

Thank you to our partners at , and to everyone who sat at our table to savour the flavours of our farm and our beloved country with us. We look forward to sharing more with you all in the year to come! 🍽🌿