Sustainable Urban Farms

The first weekend at SURF

zeitgeists — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:37:03 +0000

The first weekend when SURF kicked up was awesome! We had about 20 people on both Saturday and Sunday, enthusiastically coming together to SURF and SERVE…creating an urban oasis!

Lai Hock briefing everyone before we start for the day

Getting our portable canopy up and running...

Ser Hock gets the initial drilling started!

And then the lorry rolled in with bricks, hollow blocks, sand and cement!

Bricks of love...

Doing some housekeeping before we bring in the materials..

Getting the cement all nicely mixed...

Getting the little volcanic cement mix in shape!

Sir, Cement mixed and ready for inspection Sir!

Uncle Lay shows us the ropes as we gather around and learn the find art of laying bricks!

Laying out the foundation for the site...

The building blocks of our planter beds are up...

Everyone gets into action, even all the way from Thailand..Marisa!

"Adopt a Brick" is initiated and we go on a signature frenzy!

The first weekend was truly packed and activity filled start to the SURF Initiative. Thank you all for your contributions!

Before the SURF began…

zeitgeists — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:58:10 +0000

In partnership and support with Bottle Tree Park, Just Green Pte Ltd and Ground-Up Initiative (GUI), the idea of SURF (Sustainable URban Farms) Initiative was conceived. The land which was to be developed was rather unique though. Its fully concreted and covered like a greenhouse!

What an interesting challenge thrown upon GUI to undertake.

Here is the “land” before…

Let the SURF begin!

zeitgeists — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 04:56:52 +0000

A summary of SURF (Sustainable Urban Farms) Initiative!

Welcome to SURF (Sustainable URban Farms) Initiative! Join us on our journey as we transform this 20X5m piece of concreted land into a Urban Permaculture Oasis of Education, Inspiration and Empowerment in Making Communities more Sustainable….in Urban settings!

Please come back and check out the site as we evolve