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I am wary about juicing vegetables, especially modern vegetables.  They have been hybridized to grow too fast, and too ‘sweet’ and ‘juicy’.  It is like broiler chickens – they are hybridized to grow fast and to develop large breasts. Our tests have shown a change in the nutrients content of the broiler meat due to changes in dietary requirements to meet its fast growing nutritional needs. For example, saturated fats and omega 6 content sky-rockets, making it an ‘unbalanced’ meat, whether organic or not. The same must apply to modern hybridized vegetables and fruits.  They require...

One of my favourite fruits is the Nam Nam , or katak puru (toad). It’s a short shrubby tree, and really quite pleasing to the eye. I can picture it potted in a large pot and acting as a centre piece in a home garden. The fruits grow on the tree trunk itself; how's that for a conversation piece! All you need to do is stoop down and pluck off ripe ones....

At the farm, we leave many of the original plants alone.   And as you walk, you will find food almost everywhere – bamboos, banana piths, banana hearts and more. Here's a clump of bamboo in...

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...

Durian flowers are delicious with a subtle taste and smell. It can be eaten raw as a salad with some sambal belacan . When eaten raw, the whole flower can be eaten - the petals, stamen,...