Toh Hui Ran: “My mom has expressed and felt concern about me working on a farm in Thailand. ‘You’re going through a phase. Why are you doing this? Come back to the normal world’… Because of COVID, interestingly enough, my mom, a lot of my dad’s friends and a lot of our relatives started to realize that growing your own food is really important. A lot of them have come and said, ‘Man, we really need to grow our own food. What you guys are doing, it makes sense.’ And you know, that has never really been a topic of conversation before, but because of COVID, that’s kind of come up. People are really softening to this idea that it is not lowly, it is important, it is necessary.”
Toh, camp manger at Camp Uthai Forest in Thailand, shares about the brokenness of our food systems, plus: *What is food rescuing* *The appeal of dumpster diving* *Small organizations doing their bit to reduce food waste in Singapore *Initiating conversations on sustainability* *Community fridges* *Her move to rural Thailand* *How COVID has changed our relationship with food* *Reducing our meat intake*
25: The brokenness of our food system and what we can do about it in Singapore | Toh Hui Ran (The Everyday Singaporean)