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Useful Plants At The Farm - Sirihan, Piper Aduncum / Angustifolium 17 Apr 2013 | 09:02 am
The early European explorers to South America must have thought this plant is so important they propagated it where ever they went. It is now found naturalised in most tropical parts of the world. A...
Free-Range Egg Model for Rural Farmers 16 Apr 2013 | 10:50 am
This is the free-range layer model we intend to implement as a social enterprise with rural low-income farmers. If they sell the eggs themselves at the Farmers’ Market, each egg should fetch rm1.00 e...
Sights And Sounds Of The Farm - Emerald Doves 15 Apr 2013 | 01:12 pm
Emerald Doves are usually very flighty and nervous near humans due to poaching. At our farm, they are resident and are found in many nooks and corners. Many times they will just swagger off, in a pi...
Our Chickens Love Our Fruits As Much As We Do 14 Apr 2013 | 03:06 pm
People ask why we feed our chickens fruits, up to 40% of their diet, and not sell the fruits and use the proceeds to buy cheap grains like corn, since fruits, especially our certified organic fruits f...
The Yellow Birdwing, Troides helena, is now a resident 15 Mar 2013 | 02:18 pm
On the 1st day of this year we saw for the first time a single female Yellow Birdwing, Troides helena, flying fast at the perimeter of our farm, as if making an aerial survey. From a distance, it lo...
Eco-Friendly Small Scale Slaughterhouse 17 Dec 2012 | 04:49 pm
We have designed and built possibly the first eco-friendly slaughterhouse for small-scale operations. Proper separation of 'dirty' and 'clean' areas are provided for. Packing areas are air-condition...
Animal Rights? Human Rights? 12 Dec 2012 | 04:53 pm
It seems odd that so many talk about welfare and rights for animals, and about taking care of the environment and the ecology and yet are silent about clear blatant human rights abuses happening right...
When Nature Gives Feedback 12 Nov 2012 | 02:42 pm
Amorphophallus prainii will go dormant for months. And just when you thought they have died or something, suddenly they start sprouting all over the place. They love soil with lots of organic matte...
Animal Feedstock - localise it 1 Sep 2012 | 07:31 am
There is this mental block that we have to have corn for animal feed. So Malaysia try to grow corn for feed but it did not work out too well - not if you are competing with heavily subsidised importe...
Mimicking Nature - Can We? 4 Aug 2012 | 12:16 pm
The forest have many layers. Permaculturists say 7 0r 8. I think more. Under the soil, many more layers to be discovered. I planted a small 50ft x 60 ft layer garden. A meranti tree is the canopy ...
