Permaculture – No Green Thumb Required; Just Passion
By Julia Tan
December 2019 FEATURE
My grandfather had a garden where he planted flower bushes, fruit trees, vegetables and herbs. Before I was born, he reared chickens and geese, but I suppose he gave those up with age. He made his own compost in a raised mound (it had worms crawling all over it, in a time before I developed a phobia for them) and collected urine from the bedroom potty (he, either intentionally or not, kept the dark yellow liquid in a Zappel bottle...
Julia Tan
went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.
