Kenny Ng / Date: 25-June-09
Major activities
- Built a two-room guest house; and a pyramid-roof hut near the fish pond.
- Rebuilt the mini dam that holds the overflow water from the fish pond. To grow water chestnut vegetable. The previous one was destroyed by the May 13th flash flood.
- Hosted many visitors, particularly from friends and KS Tan’s network who are mostly the volunteers of Lapis Lazuli Light Society.
- Provide training to two Asli boys and two ladies(boys’ trainer) from Temenggor village for 4 days. They are sponsored by the Lions Club to do organic farming in their village.
Lo-light
- Have not done any planting on the 6-acre land yet. The owner, Su Win has jokingly said that Kenny is planting the wild ‘BAKU’ vegetable there.
- KS Tan left for Penang after 6 month of partnership. He repeatedly said that his presence was a burden to the farm, financially. I am so grateful to him. He has improved the farm operation in many ways, particularly the techniques of growing the leafy vegetables.
- The May 13th flash flood was a setback. The crops and top soil along the river were washed away. Money and many labour hours have been spent for the replacement of piping and replenishing the top soil. The crops output was down by 500kg in May, from the previous month. However, I was luckier than my neighbour and some kampong folks in terms of money spent and the inconveniences during that flash flood.
- Wild boars come more often than last year, sometimes every alternate night. Hopefully one day, the wild boars will leave the farm alone when I have accumulated enough merits for them.
- Most of non-leafy vegetables were of low yield, particularly the lady’s fingers. Cucumber did well only in Feb-Mar.
- The popular roselle syrup and jam were out for a few months. The roselle crop was not successful.
- A few customer feedback that some harvested vegetables were too old, particularly the bayam and kailan.
- Two male workers did not turn up for work often.
- Lee May’s projects of planting more flowers and making a walking path along the river is delayed.
Hi-light
- Honour to have Mr. Gan of GK Organic Farm and his associates visit the farm. Just for the record, below are the “Organic Stars”, my guru and senior that have visited me since I started 2 years ago.
o Ms Tan (better known as Siew) of CETDEM
o Mr & Mrs Loh of Loh’s Organic Farm
o Mr & Mrs Ho of Vision Farm
o Mr Chin of Tg. Tualang Organic Farm
o Mr Gan of GK Organic Farm
o Mr & Mrs Jacky of Janda Baik Organic Farm; and of course Mr KS Tan who had stayed in the farm for 6 months.
- The output hit 1.5 ton in April.
- Pineapples were in good harvest in the month of May and early June, harvested over 200kg. Most of them were sent to KL and Penang market. No demand in local market, said to be expensive.
- The customer base has increased with the increased output. They are from Temoh, Gopeng, Ipoh, Bukit Mertajam, Butterworth and Penang.
- Below are my loyal and consistent customers that I need to acknowledge and I want to thank them for their great support. Some customers come and go but they have remained as my regular customers for a long time.
o Mrs Leong (Su Win), my neighbour since started harvesting in Sep 2007
o Mrs Ng, Sin Kee Hardware, Tapah since Oct 2007
o Evelyn Selvarajah, Ipoh since Nov 2007
o Mr Chan, Biotech’s Best Health Store, Ipoh since Nov 2007
o Ms Yap, Ipoh since Jan 2008
o Mrs Leong, Leong Electrical, Tapah since Apr 2008
o Madam Lui, Tapah since Apr 2008
o Fruit Shop, Tapah since May 2008
o Dr Woo, headmaster of Pei Yuen private, Kampar, since June 2008
o Mrs Yong (Puan Leong), SM Sentosa teacher, Kampar since June 2008
o Mr Ho, SM Sentosa teacher, Kampar since June 2008
o Joanne, UTAR, Kampar since July 2008
Thank you!
Farm Production
“We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
JOHN ROBBINS
Author of Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution
