Kenny Ng / Date: 15-Oct-08
Major activities
- Host 6 groups of visitors during school holidays, public holidays and a few weekends.
- Learning trip to Comfort Organic Farm, Penang, with 4 workers in Aug.
- Learning trip to Vision Farm, Genting, with 2 workers, in Sep.
Lo-light
- Wild boars came often but this time besides eating tapioca, they came for those earthworms inside the raised beds. They destroyed many crops. I was given some advice on how to deter them like putting used shirts and human hair collected from barbers around the farm. Some even recommended shooting or trapping. However, I decided to put up speakers and play some sounds at night. Hope to scare them away.
- Installed Astro because of the Olympic games. Even though the games are over, I often spent about an hour a day watching it. I have been able to survive without TV and newspapers since moving to the farm.
Hi-light
- I now have distributors in Kampar, Bukit Mertajam and Butterworth. My wife has given up distributing in Bukit Mertajam herself. She is getting ready to move to the farm by Dec.
- Producing cucumbers for the first time.
- The quality and quantity of French beans and Lady’s fingers are now better than a few previous batches.
- Noticed that the soil fertility has improved, which has convinced me that the compost, IMO, smoked rice husk and liquid fertilizer that I made works. And I strongly believe the quote, “We feed the soil, the soil will feed us.”
Problems
- nil
Accomplishments
- Met 1000kg target early by 3 months!
Output (Target is 1000kg by end of 2008; to be financially sustainable)
| Sep 07 – 150kg | Jan 08 – 351kg | May 08 – 573kg |
| Oct 07 – 224kg | Feb 08 – 523kg | June 08 – 758kg |
| Nov 07 – 141kg | Mar 08 – 513kg | July 08 – 674kg |
| Dec 07 – 340kg | Apr 08 – 540kg | Aug 08 – 928kg |
Sept 08 – 1028kg
“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings.
Let food be your medicine”
Hippocrates
(460 – 377BC)
