24 Singaporean Fresh Food Producers To Get Veggies, Eggs, Fish & Chicken From

Local fish kelong Ah Hua has been around for some 22 years, and is well-known for its seabass, golden pomfret, red snapper and pearl grouper (it has two commercial farms in Changi and Sembawang). It also catches flower crabs and shellfish like mussels, blood cockles, la la and gong gong from Singapore’s waters. The kelong has expanded to include two seafood eateries, including the modernised Scaled by Ah Hua Kelong at hipster neighbourhood Haji Lane.

Shop online at www.ahhuakelong.com.

This quaintly-named dairy farm started in Singapore in 1936, and now has some 100 grass-fed Holstein Friesian cows producing milk daily for local consumption (the Dutch breed of cattle is known to yield the highest amount of milk). Other than preservative-free pasturised fresh milk, the farm in Lim Chu Kang also sells house-made ice cream in milk, dark chocolate and salted caramel flavours.

Shop online at www.dairyfolks.com.

Viknesh sells non-pasturised cow’s milk, which you can buy directly from the farm itself. The Lim Chu Kang farm also made headlines in 2019 for having a playful bull escape from its pen, sparking a bull hunt (it was later found wandering around the farm’s premises). Viknesh’s owner memorably insisted to a journo that “the cow did not escape; escape means go outside [onto the] road, go Jalan Besar, go to other places”. During the annual Pongal festival, which is traditionally celebrated by Indian farmers for a good harvest, the farm’s cows are also draped with flower garlands and led in a colourful procession along Little India.

Buy directly from the farm at 6 Lim Chu Kang Lane 8A, S719607.

The other well-known egg brand in Singapore is Chew’s, which, according to its official website, operates a 20-hectare farm that supplies some 340,000 eggs daily (about 8 per cent of Singapore’s total egg consumption). A more recently updated Today article from 2019 stated that Chew’s production capacity is now at about 500,000 a day, with plans to open a new, bigger farm in Lim Chu Kang.

Available at major supermarkets. www.chewsegg.com.

This family-owned poultry farm in Hougang has been around since 1979, and is known for rearing GG French Poulet, a type of gourmet chicken from Sabres, France. It also produces cage-free eggs from these chickens (some are bred as broilers) and supplies to Chinese restaurant chain Imperial Treasure and Michelin-starred restaurants like Burnt Ends, Corner House, Iggy’s as well as the defunct Restaurant Andre and L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon.

Available at Little Farms and Sasha’s Fine Foods. www.oeo.com.sg.

Kin Yan is Singapore’s largest commercial wheatgrass and mushroom farm, and it’s under the Hockhua Group (which also owns the chain of Hockhua Tonic Chinese medicinal shops). It supplies its pesticide-free crops to supermarkets and eateries. Other than wheatgrass and mushrooms like king oyster, it also grows other veggies such as sweet potato leaves, watercress, pea sprouts and aloe vera in its Lim Chu Kang farm.

Available at major supermarkets and RedMart. www.kinyan.sg.

After weathering the SARS and bird flu epidemics, this organic farm at Lim Chu Kang prides itself on not using animal waste as soil fertiliser. Instead, they use natural rock dust, molasses and seaweed. They also do not use pesticides or fungicides on their crops, which includes greens like bok choy, chye sim, corn, peas, French beans, long beans and gourds.

Shop online at www.fireflies.sg/wp/marketplace.

This indoor hydroponic farm founded in 2015 by young farmer Ray Poh produces ‘high-tech’ spinach grown using state-of-the-art technology. It will be stocked at grocer Little Farms from mid-April 2020, but in the meantime you can contact the farm to enquire about direct purchases.

#04-19/20 16 Kallang Place, S339156. Tel: 9863-1211. www.artisan.green.

This farm in the agro technology park of Sungei Tengah (one of Singapore’s six agro technology parks, which is the government’s allocated “modern agriculture estates”) produces leafy veggies like xiao bai cai, kang kong and kailan. Other than supermarkets and online retailers, the farm also offers its veggies at a weekend market on its premises.

Available at NTUC FairPrice supermarkets, RedMart and Shopee. 18 Sungei Tengah Rd, S698974. www.kokfahfarm.com.sg.

Comcrop is an ‘urban’ farm which grows crops on Singapore’s building rooftops, and produces veggies like basil, mint, ruby red lettuce and chye sim.

Available at NTUC FairPrice supermarkets and RedMart. www.comcrop.com.

Located on an 8,000 sqm land plot in Queenstown, Citizen Farm grows enough herbs, mushrooms and veggies to feed 500 people a day. It also supplies produce to local eateries like Tippling Club and the Spa Esprit Group’s stable of restaurants like Open Farm Community. This includes pesticide-free leafy greens such as kale, lettuce and bok choy, as well as beetroot and edible flowers and herbs such as pandan, roselle and kaffir lime. For members of the public, the farm offers a subscription plan (from $35 a week) where you get a reusable cooler bag of leafy greens, microgreens, mushrooms, herbs and flowers delivered to you (contents vary weekly). Read our interview with Citizen Farm’s founder Bjorn Low here.

www.citizenfarm.com.sg.