Malaysia: From food waste to fresh harvest: Growing a sustainable garden in the heart of Kuala Lumpur
“I knew I wanted to build a career in agriculture, starting with composting food waste. To succeed, I had to make sacrifices.”
By Soon Li Wei
Borneo Post
December 28, 2025
Excerpt:
IN the heart of bustling Kuala Lumpur lies an urban garden that supplies fresh vegetables and fruits to nearby residents all year round.
Tucked behind overgrown shrubs, opposite a row of terraced houses and parking bays in Taman Setapak Permai, the sight of crisp leafy greens and thriving brinjal plants at the garden’s entrance is a welcoming surprise.
“Welcome to Kebun Lestari Setapak Permai (Setapak Permai Sustainable Garden),” a young man, wearing a gardening hat and holding a hoe, greets the writer, before adding that 70 per cent of the fertilisers used in the garden comprise food waste collected from around the city.
Yap Jing Zong, 25, also an entrepreneur and founder of 4Leaf Nursery, says the site where the garden now stands used to be an abandoned plot, where residents had been dumping their garbage for about 20 years.
But after clearing it and working on it for over two years, together with some members of the local community, it has turned it into a garden that supplies fresh vegetables and fruits to the neighbourhood.
Using his hoe, Yap digs a small hole in an open area in the garden, which is filled with wood chips and moist soil, and fruit peels can be seen buried beneath the soil.
“This entire area we’re standing on consists of buried food waste, and the soil itself is compost,” he says.
“Look here… there are worms, there are black soldier flies.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/malaysia-from-food-waste-to-fresh-harvest-growing-a-sustainable-garden-in-the-heart-of-kuala-lumpur/
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