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Raised beds incorporating design to maximise planting areas and reducing energy input was developed by the Permaculture movement.  At DQ, we have added a small innovation, i.e. to make it expandable . The expandable raised beds are now producing their third harvest: This is bayam pasir again.  We rotated the bed used.           And this is sawi bunga, a brassica chinensis var. It will be ready for harvesting cum thinning in a few days time when the flowers emerge.         There has been no purchased input and minimal on-farm produced inputs.  When...

The recipes for many of our local vegetables, leaves and herbs can be 'updated' to suit modern taste-buds.  This will reduce our dependence on imported fresh food or to pay high prices for transplanting those vegetables and herbs here to grow them.     Due to globalised marketing our perception of what is good and delicious food have changed, and become more 'internationalised';...