City dwellers can experience growing vegetables on their own mini farms

GROWING your own vegetables can be a truly rewarding experience.

The BSK Property’s Farm Village is one programme specially designed to give nature lovers a chance to enjoy a new green attraction here in Penang.

Its chief executive officer Bonnie Bong Siew Kian said the Farm Village programme encourages the public to grow greens.

“There are 50 plots where vegetables such as kale or kailan, choy sam(mustard green) and siu pak choy (dwarf brassica) can be planted during an eight-week per cycle basis. It should be a good experience,’’ she said.

Each plot will have two growing beds each measuring 4’x8’.

The first session of the programme will start on Saturday.

For plot owners who are too busy with their work, Bong said a team of workers could prepare the pre-planting and help them maintain the farm.

She said the programme allows nature lovers, especially those from the city, to experience a healthy and stress-free lifestyle by growing and harvesting their own vegetables.

“The whole idea is to remind people about the benefit of living close to nature.

“Besides, it is also a sort of get-together retreat for family members to escape the bustling city life,” she said during a press conference at the farm recently.

Bong said most people have forgotten about the beauty of the island because they were too busy pursuing their career.

Inspired by the warm hospitality and family values of the local community, she then decided to come out with the family-oriented project.

Bong started her first property development project — the Pinang Village — in Balik Pulau comprising 51 double-storey link houses and 28 semi-detached houses.

The occupation certificate for both the first and second phase of the project was obtained in February last year.

Bong said the third phase — the Pinang Heights — comprising 54 three-storey link houses is set to be launched by June.

Those who are interested in the farm adoption programme can contact Corline Chong at 012-3280316 or email to bsk.farmvillage@gmail.com or Facebook@BSK Farm Village. - The Star