Kenny Ng / Date: 08-Apr-08
Major activities
-Hosted 10 students, a teacher and 8 parents from The Abundant Resource Center (a private school), Pandan Indah, KL, for 2D/1N eco tour package.
Lo-light
-Rain fell almost every day for the whole month of March. This caused less vegetable output than expected.
-Not many varieties were available to harvest. Besides the leafy vegetables, had only petola, bitter gourd and binjal. Sorry, maybe due to poor planning.
-A former organic farmer in the 90’s visited my farm recently and frankly told me that my farm size is too small to be financially sustainable. He is convinced that I would get poorer and poorer until I give up one day. Wou…How? He recommended that I turn my farm into an eco farm resort that is able to host 60 guests at one time. My farm produce will be mainly supplied to those in-house guests. I am not convinced yet. My target is still 1000kg/month output by end of the year.
Hi-light
-The demand for my produce is still more than my farm’s supply. This is especially for the Bukit Mertajam, Penang market.
-Recruited another worker, I now have 6 workers.
-March output is 513kg. Leafy vegetables output increased from155kg (Feb) to 237kg (Mar).
-2 customers told Lee May, my wife, that they somehow feel happier after consuming my vegetables. Guess it is probably due to my workers and I being happy, and enjoying ourselves while working in the farm.
Problems
-nil
Accomplishments
-nil
Output (Target is 1000kg by end of 2008; to be financially sustainable)
Sep 07 – 150kg
Oct 07 – 224kg
Nov 07 – 141kg
Dec 07 – 340kg
Jan 08 – 351kg
Feb 08 – 523kg
Mar 08 – 513kg
“Protection against disease is more important, and more effective, than later therapy. And protective medicine starts in the soil.” …….. Dr. Weissman
“Soil is the basis for our present and future existence!”
