Dear Friends,
The Sunday outing to Back2Nature Regenerative farm, Kuala Pilah (Negeri Sembilan) on 21 Jan 2024, participated by members of Sutra Foundation and Selangor & Federal Territory Gardening Society, was indeed a mind-opener for many of us.
Kudos to its founder Dr Ho Ting Seng for his steadfast hard work to manifest his conviction that farming can be undertaken organically with zero chemical. Dr Ho’s Back2Nature farm is now a living testimony that this ‘feat’ can be achieved and should be supported.
Dr Ho started his soil-remediation and regenerative experiments through the effective introduction of microbes back again to the depleted soil of 3 acres of abandoned former ‘sawah’ land. Two and half years later the soil of this once acidic hard clay-land has been restored, improved and now yielding an impressive diverse produce from papaya, pineapple, soursop, lemon, black turmeric to the longevity promoting fruits of the mahkota dewa bush.
Dr Ho also promoted with authentic madu (honey) Tualang scourged by the local Orang Asli from nearby forest.
There was plenty of questions, discussion and participation over delicious authentic nasi lemak, fruits and Sutra coffee.
The activists among us, concerned with our deteriorating environment and quality of food dished out to us (insidiously camouflaged by attractive packaging), exchanged updates on the latest relevant information.
We unanimously hail Dr Ho as a hero whose active work on chemical-free food is one of the most important and relevant efforts which needed the concerted support of a caring and concerned society.
Sutra