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Vegetable harvest at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital garden
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A volunteer harvesting vegetables on the rooftop garden at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital.
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- Khoo Teck Puat Hospital's rooftop garden, established in 2010, grows many fruits and vegetables, using methods like crop rotation.
- It supplies 18kg of vegetables weekly to feed 90 patients, chosen for reliable growth and nutritional value.
- The garden has 16 volunteers and sells remaining produce at farmers' markets; the manager hopes Singapore can achieve food self-sufficiency.
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SINGAPORE – The rooftop garden at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital regularly sprouts a bounteous harvest.
There are around 50 varieties of vegetables and 50 types of fruit trees grown in the edible garden set up in 2010, says Mr Simon Chan, 62, senior assistant manager of the hospital’s landscape department. These include kale, sweet potato, mango and banana. There is even a durian tree, but it has never fruited.
