STORIES
Every place holds a story the soil remembers.
Stories from the ground and the people who tend it. Some begin with a question, others with a handful of earth. Together they offer a way of seeing what grows beneath the surface of everyday life in Singapore’s living systems. Stories are a communal way of sharing knowledge, carried through lived experience, reflection, and attention.
We invite you to come in slowly, follow what draws you, and settle into each story as it unfolds.
A LIVING RECORD
Tended together.
These stories are drawn from years of working with soil in community spaces across the island, from conversations with gardeners, and from our multi-year research collaboration with the National Parks Board of Singapore.
If you are a practitioner, researcher, or gardener who would like to contribute a story or perspective, we'd love to hear from you.
One of the findings from the research was that the communities above the ground directly influence the communities below the ground. What happens to a space when the ones championing the cause are no longer there? The MGS garden was one such example, and the following letter was written by Han Jing and sent as an email to the management of MGS, in hopes of preserving the regenerative garden and bringing across the value of the space and the community above that tends to it.