#6 Charmaine Leung - Growing Up in a Red Light District
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For this episode I spoke to Charmaine Leung author of 17A Keong Saik Road: A Personal Story.
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#5 Bjorn Low - Making A Greener Little Red Dot
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For this episode I spoke to Bjorn Low founder of Edible Garden City.
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#4 Ang Jolie Mei - The Life Celebrant
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For this episode of Red Dot Voices, I spoke to Ang Jolie Mei.
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#3 Alvin Yapp - Treasures of the Intan
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For this episode of Red Dot Voices, I spoke to Alvin Yapp.
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#2 Calvin Soh - One Kind House and an Exponential Future
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For the first interview of Red Dot Voices, I spoke to Calvin Soh.
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#1 Welcome to Red Dot Voices
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Introduction to the Red Dot Voices series, its host, defining creativity, and what to expect in future episodes.
info_outlineFor this episode I spoke to Bjorn Low founder of Edible Garden City.
Bjorn grew up in Singapore but only really got into gardening after living in the UK, where quit a successful career in advertising to study agriculture and volunteer on farms around the country.
After returning to Singapore in 2012 he soon realised that his dream of owning a farm had a very big problem - buying farmland in one of the smallest countries in the world costs millions of dollars. So he got creative, and Edible Garden City was born.
The social enterprise started off with a nomadic existence, teaching and growing on a carpark roof in Chinatown, a shop house in Little India and partnering with restaurants, hotels, schools and residences around the island. Since then, Edible Garden City has moved to a permanent location, was recognised at the 2019 Sustainable Business Awards, and will be showcased at the Dubai Expo 2020. Bjorn has also been named a finalist for the Straits Times Singaporean of the Year.
Our conversation touched on biodynamic agriculture, the challenges of bringing urban farming to Singapore, applying lessons from nature to running a business, the therapeutic qualities of gardening, and how Singapore can move towards greater food security in a post-COVID world. Bjorn’s tips on growing plants at home even inspired me to try growing from seed again, and I now have a baby tomato plant sitting on the windowsill beside me.
Links to all of the topics we cover can be found in the show notes at https://henryyorke.com/podcast/