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

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Marigold.

A private home in Bukit Timah has been turned into the farm, with vegetables growing on the land, and fish growing in the swimming pool.

Photographed on June 20, 2023.

Chef Tse Shu Chun harvesting marigolds, which he uses to garnish his Mexican tarragon parfait for private diners.

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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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