When you cannot hit the target 3/3 🙆🏻‍♀️

You try another way 👨‍🌾

Singapore has done well in many things but we have failed to produce food for ourselves in a sustainable way. Looking at what is going on around the world today, how will wars, tariffs, and control over shipping affect us? How will we feed the 6.11 million people living here? Are we waiting for the government to fix it for us? How do we as individuals and communities help ourselves? 🤔

Mrs Alice Lek is the Principal and Managing Director of a Skills Future training provider. She is passionate about teaching Plant Propagation and Production, Herbs for Life, and How to Make Your Own Organic Fertilisers and Pest Control.

↑ Photos by fellow coursemate, Leei Leei

I attended Alice’s class in January 2026. Our farmer teacher says: My encouragement for all of us is to look towards microgreens:

• Veggies take weeks and months to grow. Microgreens has a faster turn around time to harvest
• It is cheap and good
• There is no need for big space
• It can be done in the confines of one’s home 🏠
• Microgreens are high in vitamins and nutrients
• It is very healthy for the body

Singapore’s has a “30 by 30” food plan that was launched in 2019. The food security plan aims to produce 30% of our nutritional needs locally by 2030. That plan was tweaked in 2025. More here.

Let’s put our learning into practical use. Go start a microgreens seed bank. 30/30 is round the corner. We are entering into the second month of 2026 very soon. Start a seeds collection now.

Of course, it takes more than microgreens to feed a nation. But it’s a simple way we can begin to help ourselves. 🙆🏻‍♀️

S$10 is enough to get you started. You don’t need millions and millions. You can use recycled containers. – Tan Gark Teck, microgreens trainer