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cultivatecentral - Let's grow food in small spaces. Welcome to the cultivatecentral page. Join us on an earth care journey.

We believe vibrant, ecological and compact urban gardens can connect people to nature and cultures to growing food. Permaculture Design has made us reframe the lack of space “problem” as an opportunity. We’ll share all that we know, continue to learn and experience as Permaculture practitioners with you. You can count on us for. . .
- Down-to-earth and simple urban gardening solutions that'll help you create compact and fascinating ecological gardens.
- Content that'll make Permaculture accessible and help you and your family pursue earth care daily.
- Creative urban gardening workshops and events for children and their communities and organisations.
- Designing and creating nature inspired urban gardens, programmes and spaces for children, communities and organisations.

10/04/2026

🐝 What could a regenerative urban farm and pollinator habitat look like inside a community that's rebuilding lives?

Ten months ago, Cultivate Central and began finding out together.

We're still learning. But nature has been a good teacher.

Swipe to see what's growing at The Helping Hand. 👉

Then come see it in person on 18 April — Run & Ride to Restore fundraiser.

We'll be at the Bloom & Buzz booth, join us for these activities:
🦋 Pollinator Passport
☕ Hands Café — garden produce made into drinks and products by the residents
🔍 Insect Safari with entomologist
🌿 Garden tour — come ask us anything

Normally a restricted space. Rare chance to visit.
📍 The Helping Hand, Kovan | 🕘 9–11.30am, 18 April
🔗 Link in bio to register

27/01/2026

*Our senior growers will inspire you to cultivate some food!*

🌱 Stick and Start | Growing Made Simple 🌱

📍 Goodman Community Farm

🗓 31 January 2026 | 10–11am

💚 SGD 5 / person

This workshop is inspired and led by our senior growers and community researchers from the Goodman Community Farm — who believe that growing food should be simple, practical, and shared.

In this session, you’ll learn fuss-free propagation techniques using cuttings, grow easy regional edibles, and understand how permaculture works in everyday spaces. You’ll also get to see first-hand how we’ve built healthy soil from food waste at the Goodman Community Farm — turning scraps into nourishment for plants and people.

🌿 Bring a friend or family member along and:

Take home cuttings from our community farm

Learn directly from experienced senior growers

See how waste becomes soil, and soil becomes food

Experience hands-on, beginner-friendly, food growing

This workshop is part of the .nus Living the Good Life Community Museum, we’ve been exploring through community research with the SAGE team *How permaculture spaces, such as ours can support health, purpose, and connection for seniors through food, nature, art and shared hands-on action.*

After the workshop we will guide you through outcomes form our year long community research and invite you to reimagine local food systems together with us.

🔗 Link in the bio to sign up

Part of Living the Good Life | With N

21/03/2025

🌿 Giggling Greens: A Workshop & Exhibition to Delight Your Senses

This is a special collaboration between artist-scientist and our very own :

Giggling Greens is an interactive public art installation that brings together technology, plants, and people in the quirkiest way possible. Think: edible and fragrant plants that giggle when you water or touch them.

🎨 Workshop: Happening this weekend - Saturday, March 22nd!

Join us to:
🔍 Meet the creative team
🎤 Create voices for plants
🎧 Explore the sounds of Singapore’s edible herbs
🎨 Play, imagine, and get hands-on with this delightfully weird and wonderful experience

✨Open to all. Kids, adults, curious humans of all kinds.

👉Link to workshop sign up in our bio above. 👆

📍 Exhibition:
🗓 15–31 March 2025
📍 Green Pavilion, Singapore Botanic Gardens

Ready to make your herbs giggle? Come and play! 🌿🎶

15/02/2025

We're kicking off our Permaculture in Practice sessioms for 2025!

Join us next Saturday, when Master Gardeners, Jumi and Jeannette, will lead the Volunteer and Learn session. Come and immerse yourselves in learning and practicing permaculture principles with us.👨‍🌾👩‍🌾

These sessions are deal for anyone who is new to the Goodman Community Farm or permaculture, and those with children.

We'll be doing a little bit of a Gotong Royong, followed by maintenance and a variety of garden tasks like pruning, fertilising, harvesting and planting seedlings.

Permaculture in Practice: Volunteer & Learn
📅 Saturday, 22nd Feb
🕒 3.30pm to 5.30pm
📍Goodman Community Farm at Goodman Arts Centre

👉Sign up through the link in our bio👆

20/11/2024

🤔Same plant, so why do the leaves differ so greatly?

🪴Healthy soil, of course! This here is a little proof that healthy soil makes for happy, healthy plants. The first image shows leaves from a pot with dry, low-nutrient soil, while the second image shows the same plant after being moved into a pot rich in compost and organic material. And, just look at the difference! Once the plant was moved the new leaves grew much bigger and have a healthier shade of green as opposed to the small crinkled yellowing leaves.

🌍Healthy soil doesn’t just support growth - it brings out the plant’s full potential! When your soil is packed with organic goodness, your plants will reward you with lush leaves, vibrant color, and a natural resilience. Even small-space gardeners can see big changes with a little soil TLC!

🌱So if you feel your balcony plants are suffering from mediocre growth, focus on making your soil healthier. Check out some of our videos (link in bio) on how to compost in small spaces to improve your soil quality with your kitchen waste and other easily available materials.

13/11/2024

What’s Linda up to?!

She’s enthusiastically drying herbs at our last Permaculture in Practice: Grow, Cook & Make sessions where practical skills meet laughter, community, and connection.

✨These sessions are all about bringing people together to share knowledge on permaculture living in urban spaces. A space for our community of permaculture designers, educators, master gardeners, artists, makers, chefs and more to share their expertise and experience with you.

Each session, we dive into a new topic, skill, or practice. Our aim is to empower each other with skills for everyday sustainable living, and to be producers not just consumers! 🌎

So, what would YOU like to explore next? Fermenting for health? Composting and growing your own herbs in small spaces? Making natural dyes? Let us know in the comments, and we’ll consider your ideas for our Permaculture in Practice: Grow, Cook & Make sessions in 2025! 🙌

📸 Master Gardener, Jeanette

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05/11/2024

Stuck with limited balcony or garden space? Not sure what to grow?

📑Here’s a quick guide to choosing plants that give you the most bang for your (space) buck:

🔍 Ask Yourself:

What’s used most often at home?

What’s best fresh from your garden rather than store bought and refrigerated?

What packs value for your time? (Hint: Perennials! Yes, we have a guide to kick-start those in your balcony too. Link in our bio👆)

What’s expensive or hard to find?

What does double duty? (Think sweet potato: used as ground cover has edible leaves, and tubers! And yes, they can be grow on balconies in grow bags.)

What’s super tasty and easy to grow?

🍃When space is tight, make every leaf and stem count! Choose plants that are productive, tasty, and easy to grow.

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16/10/2024

Food is Community 🌿🍚

At Cultivate Central, we believe that food is more than just fuel - it’s about community, connection, and shared stories. And what better way to experience that than by cooking and eating together?

In our upcoming Permaculture in Practice with Linda Tom, participants will dive into the many ways to use sweet potato leaves - ahumble yet versatile ingredient packed with nutrients and flavour.

After exploring its uses, together we’ll to create a regional favourite: Nasi Ulam.

👩‍🍳We’re excited to have leading the way, sharing her knowledge of this fragrant dish whicj she learned from her mum.

🌱🍚Nasi Ulam is a fragrant rice dish mixed with finely chopped fresh herbs, vegetables, and spices. Each bite offers layers of flavours and textures, showcasing the importance of local, regional and seasonal produce. It’s a dish that varies across the region - every family has its own twist, making it the perfect embodiment of diversity and traditions.

We’ll chop, mix, and laugh together, making something greater than the sum of its parts because community is at the heart of good food and good community gardens.

🌿We’d love for you to join us. Let’s connect, cook, and grow - together. To purchase a ticket head to the Permaculture in Practice link in our bio.

Simple & Versatile: Fuss-Free Nutritious Dishes for Busy Days with Linda Tom

📅 Date: Saturday, 19th October 2024

⏰ Time: 10am to 12pm

📍 Location: Goodman Community Farm

See you there!

13/10/2024

You’ve got the drip systems, the wicking beds, and maybe even a fancy self-watering planter from online, but when was the last time you really watered your plants yourself? 🤔

It’s not just about quenching their thirst (though they appreciate it!). Hand-watering gives you a front-row seat to their lives. Slowly, you’ll notice their little quirks—yellowing leaves, new buds, or pests you might need to ‘take care’ of.

Why it matters:

🌱 Observe and Interact: When you water by hand, you connect with your plants and catch issues before they become obvious.

🧘‍♂️ Time to Breathe: Hand-watering is meditative. It’s just you, your plants, and the sound of water. A simple way to slow down and be present.

🌎 Working with Nature: Nature doesn’t rush, and neither should you. These small moments help us understand our plants and ourselves. Maybe we all need a little watering sometimes, too? 💧

So, sure, let the systems and tech do their things on most days, but every now and then, grab that watering can or hose. Your plants will thrive, and you might just feel more grounded too. 🌿

📸Master Gardener Jeanette👒at Goodman Community Farm where we build up the soil with organic matter so it absorbs and retains as much water as possible and we hand water as often as we can to create a thriving urban farm.

04/10/2024

What's Linda so happy about?

The fact that she's got her hands on some sweet potatoes leaves!

Sweet potatoes aren't just about the tubers, the leaves are essy to cook with too! These leafy greens are underappreciated but super versatile.

🥗 Packed with nutrients: minerals like iron and magnesium are more bioavailable in these leaves than many other greens.

💪 High in fibre: Keep that gut happy and moving along.

👛 Budget-friendly: Whether you grow sweet potatoes or buy the leaves, they’re a budget-friendly and easier-to-grow alternative to greens like spinach.

Plus, they taste delicious! Stir-fry, soup, pesto, salads—you name it, they can do it. 🙌

So why stick only to the potato when the leaves are just as good!

Come join us for our upcoming 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰, 𝐂𝐨𝐨𝐤, 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 workshop centred around the humble sweet potato leaf.

𝐒𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 & 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞: 𝐅𝐮𝐬𝐬-𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐍𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐓𝐨𝐦

📅 Date: Saturday, 19th October 2024

⏰ Time: 10am to 12pm

📍 Location: Goodman Community Farm

👉More details and link to purchase tickets in our bio above.🔗

Address

90 Goodman Road
Singapore
439053

Website

http://cultivatecentral.com/

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