With national plans to transform about 390ha of Lim Chu Kang into an agri-tech food cluster – aimed at boosting Singapore’s food production – underway, long-standing vegetable farms such as Fire Flies Health Farm and Farm 85 Trading have either closed or moved from the area last year. Green Circle Eco-Farm, a food forest and organic farm owned by former chemist and self-taught farmer Evelyn Eng-Lim, was not spared from the redevelopment either.
The farm was a flourishing verdant oasis of edible vegetation grown on painstakingly cultivated soil enriched with compost made from landscape, mung bean, soya bean and kitchen waste. This topsoil, measuring about 15cm in depth, took about 20 years to create, and
