Backyard Fresh Veggies

Lunchbreak lobang: I have new doozies, I’ve just been too snowed under. Many years ago at school, I was assigned as a secret santa for a girl in the younger class. One thing that impressed me was that she was quiet, polite and gentle but every note I received from her was timely, thoughtful and neat, it was like she was incapable of colouring or scissoring a line crookedly.

Fast forward to this year, Peiyun Ong tells me that she has started a farm, and of course I have to try, and of course, I’m not surprised that her produce is beautiful, each head of butter and crystal lettuce is perfect, round, turgid and crunchy, the Swiss chard is a brilliant red. The sage is a dark forest green and the leaves are large and thick, when I threw them in browned butter, they sizzled and crisped like I was in Tuscany, which means unlike supermarket herbs, they still have moisture and depth in them.

As someone who has always been interested in precision agriculture, I am personally excited to see a new generation growing from Singapore’s Food Agency’s grants to encourage national food security resilience and education about traceability in local consumption.

I hope you will enjoy these photos, I think they speak for themselves. I ordered bouquet boxes for friends for Mothers’ Day and you can too, at their website https://backyardfresh.sg/ where you can order veggies for free delivery or get a subscription. At $2.50 for a lush butterhead lettuce or $2 a box of herbs, I think it’s well priced for an amazing salad.