Farming in a Bukit Timah bungalow: Growing vegetables, raising chickens like in kampung days

Chef Tse Shu Chun harvesting marigolds, which he uses to garnish his Mexican tarragon parfait for private diners. ST PHOTO: ONG WEE JIN
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SINGAPORE – This is a scene right out of a sepia-toned photograph from days of yore – the backyard of a house filled with rows of vegetables growing, chickens clucking in coops, a pond full of fish. Songbirds and dragonflies flitting about.

But the picture is in full colour and the setting is not a kampung, but prime residential land.

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