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The Straits Times' John Lui working as a farmhand at urban farm Commonwealth Greens on May 10, 2023.

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SINGAPORE – Some years ago, somewhere in the rural wilds of Lim Chu Kang, for this column, I became a farmhand.

Out there in the muck, I lost my innocence. The experience cured me of any post-retirement back-to-nature fantasies I might have harboured.

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