tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post6799453414435035650..comments2024-03-26T13:52:37.542+08:00Comments on Blog To Express: Ways Done in the Past - Rural FarmingThimbuktuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-2264590171730708142012-02-24T22:07:49.142+08:002012-02-24T22:07:49.142+08:00Those days farming denotes vegetable farming, anim...Those days farming denotes vegetable farming, animal husbandry, fishery all in one. There was very few specific farming. The reason was they were all interdependent. The waste of the farm animals was used a manure for the vegetables. The leftover vegetables and edible weeds etc were fed to the animals etc. Farmers had fresh vegetables, meat, fish and fruit. They did not use artificial fertiliser or insecticides. To kill insects they used a poisonous plant called tuba. In short the food was all organic. Those days there was no electricity and therefore not refrigerators. Food was not chilled. To them chilled food was not consider fresh. To know more you may visit: wwwyeohongeng.blogspot.com.<br />We were farmers of those era.dashing hongenghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755084092366890319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-1792955272954065772012-02-23T11:42:48.918+08:002012-02-23T11:42:48.918+08:00I absolutely love the farming area in Marsiling wi...I absolutely love the farming area in Marsiling with its rolling hills and beautiful farmland. Its pastoral beauty is a source of inspiration to me.<br /><br />Unfortunately, they are all gone. Some parts are even sealed off as military area. With a little bit of hindsight, some areas could have been preserved as heritage farms. <br /><br />Today, one has to go to Lim Chu Kang area to see some farms. But they are all very commercialized. Nothing like the old pastoral Marsiling that I knew off.limhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06443241887721915102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-57827357602769864472012-02-23T11:30:30.200+08:002012-02-23T11:30:30.200+08:00Thanks for the memories, Weng Hong.
Bukit Ho Swee...Thanks for the memories, Weng Hong.<br /><br />Bukit Ho Swee was a "kampong within a city", not exactly a countryside.<br /><br />I had an experience of rural farming in Singapore in the 1970s during NS days and the rustic life of Singapore, where vegetable and livestock farms were located in Hong Kah Village. The topo march in the village was a new experience to me.<br /><br />I often backpack travelling to small towns in Malaysia during my younger days for the experience of rural farming. I avoided the big cities in Kuala Lumpur though.<br /><br />The "Avian influenza H5N1" virus outbreak in Hong Kong when chickens were culled by the thousands in 2011 during the bird flu outbreak.Thimbuktuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04495581875211093357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-108630126700411599.post-82417001504720766162012-02-23T08:32:54.842+08:002012-02-23T08:32:54.842+08:00I do not have any experience of kampong life. The ...I do not have any experience of kampong life. The only time I came across farms was when doing national service in the 1980s. We had to walk across some vegetable farms in mandai during our exercises. When I was young, we still buy live chickens from markets to slaughter at home. Those chicken were somehow tastier than the frozen chicken we buy from supermarkets nowadays. Now in Singapore, it is hard to find a live chicken anywhere.Yee Weng Honghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01306979220710750442noreply@blogger.com