Buy Local Products. It may not be essential in terms of carbon footprint for some products but it's essential for fresh and perishable ones. It helps to support Singapore 30 / 30 Food Plan, secure food supplies, raise awareness on food production and supply chain. It is also an opportunity to be more creative with well known products. Promote your actions with the local farmers and suppliers: it benefits them and your image at the same time.
Look for certifications and labels. For products like eggs, vegetables and fish for instance, Singapore certified and accredited farms are under these quality assurance schemes:
90%
of the food consumed in Singapore is imported.
(SFA)
30%
Singapore aims at raising the local food production to 30% of their needs by 2030.
(Straits Times)
Chew's Agriculture Pte Ltd is the first ISO 22000:2005 and HACCP certified farm in Singapore, with commitment to deliver high quality, wholesome and safe egg-products for consumers, and also the first Certified Humane® Egg Producer in Singapore.
Chew's designer eggs:
Organic selenium eggs, cage free eggs, omega 3 eggs, omega 6 eggs, zeaxanthin plus eggs, traditional black chicken eggs & kampong chicken eggs, corn + soya eggs, lower cholesterol brown shell eggs, extra-large lower cholesterol brown shell fresh eggs.
Please note there is a minimum order of 300 pieces for wholesale orders.
They can be contacted by email or telephone: (+65) 6793 7674
ComCrop is the first urban commercial rooftop farm in Southeast Asia.
ComCrop comes from Community Crop, because not only do they use marginalised spaces to grow food, they also establish their farms near where people live (less transport and commute) and support marginalised communities (such as M.I.N.D.S.).
They use hydroponic systems, that use 90% less water than traditional farming, and climate-controlled environment system. They are also pesticide-free.
To contact them, click here.
Edible Garden City champions the "Grow Our Own" movement – believing that growing your own food will reconnect one with nature, conserve natural resources, and cultivate a sense of community.
To do so, EGC’s Foodscaping team has built over 200 edible gardens for restaurants, hotels, schools, office buildings, and private residential homes, their Farm Production team grows fresh produce throughout Singapore, and their Education team drives a range of workshops and events from school farming programmes to corporate workshops, volunteer opportunities to full-on apprenticeships – to share the love for growing your own.
VertiVegie is a Singaporean Controlled Environment Farming Company.
By growing food locally in a controlled environment, they limit crop loss during production, increase shelf life for consumption & substitute imported food which contributes to major transportation and handling food losses.
Their vertical farm, powered by on-site solar generation, reduces land use, and their closed loop water systems use 90% less water use than field agriculture. Also, the hydro-nutrition food grade systems allow year round production without soil depletion and degradation.
They use:
- No Pesticides, Pollutants & Preservatives.
- No Genetic Modification.
- No Unethical Practices.