Local Strawberries, Kale & Italian Basil Grown Throughout The Year With Hydroponics Technology Are you always pining for strawberry season, when half-priced punnets hit NTUC? Well, you don’t have to wait any longer. Source A local hydroponics firm named Sustenir Agriculture has managed to grow strawberries on home soil, albeit in a controlled environment. Splendid strawberries Step aside Korean and American strawberries, and make way for your Singaporean cousins. Source In hot and humid Singapore, it’s practically a miracle that a local farm managed to cultivate these juicy non-native fruits. Source How did they do it? Through the help of technology in a “controlled hydroponics environment”. Sustenir Agriculture says they enhance “flavour profiles” of the fruits and vegetables, through adjusting the nutrients running through water fed to the plants. The endeavour took two months to realise for strawberries, and another six more months of trial and error to fine-tune the best strawberry cultivation techniques. Plants are grown in ‘concrete urban jungles’ as they’re stacked and housed in planters to maximise space. The suspense is kale-ing us Before strawberries came along, Sustenir Agriculture focused their efforts on breeding kale. Two kinds of kale, to be exact: Toscano Black Kale ‘Kinky Green’ Curly […]
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