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Kebun Kota is a 14-acre urban farm in Kuantan that has championed the circular economy since 2008.
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Today, with our Roots by Kebun Kota sustainable living and fair trade brand, we offer a wide range of organic and all-natural products, from farm to table.

30/05/2024

A simple experiment with a profound message, measuring the temperature of exposed soil, cut grass and uncut grass in summer. The results speak for themselves, a reading from the hedge would have been interesting to include.

23/05/2024

2,000-year-old tree in South Africa called The Tree of Life. The baobab tree

Baobab trees are among the most unique trees that grow in Africa. According to an estimate, these trees are among the oldest trees on earth. In the savanna (Africa) the climate is very dry. Where other trees grow with difficulty. The baobab tree thrives there.

During the rainy season, the baobab tree absorbs and stores water in its broad trunk. A full tree can store thousands of liters of water within itself. The water stored in its trunk is so much that the tree can survive for years thanks to this water. Can survive even in drought.

The baobab tree can grow up to 30 meters tall. And it can live up to five thousand years. Baobab trees can provide shelter, food and water for animals and humans, which is why many savannah communities have built their homes. Made near the baobab trees. And this tree is considered the tree of life.

The fruits of this tree are also exceptionally rich in nutrients and antioxidants.
The baobab fruit is the only fruit in the world that dries naturally on its branch. Instead of falling off and spoiling, it stays on the branch and ripens in the sun for 6 months - the pulp of the fruit dries completely.
Its green velvety coating transforms into a hard coconut-like shell. 100% pure fruit in its natural form. Amazingly, the fruit has a natural shelf life of 3 years. It has been used for years to treat fatigue, digestion, protection against disease, and infection, as well as beautify the skin.

Ropes are made from the bark of this tree. While its leaves are eagerly eaten by cattle. And the clear water in its stem can be drunk. While the oil made from its fruit seeds is used in cosmetics. The value of which is very high in the market.

Baobab trees grow in some of the driest, remotest, and poorest parts of rural Africa. According to a report by National Geographic, demand for this tree is increasing due to its unique characteristics.

Plant Trees, Plant HOPE 💚🌳

22/05/2024

Behold, the value of a tree❤️

23/04/2024

BUNGA LENGKUAS – CANTIK dan BERKHASIAT ANTI KANSER PAYUDARA

Lengkuas biasanya digunakan dalam masakan terutama di kalangan masyarakat Thailand, Indonesia dan masyarakat di negara kita.

Dari segi perubatan tradisional, lengkuas biasa digunakan untuk masalah yang berkaitan sistem penghadaman dan jangkitan kulat.

Bahan berkhasiat utama rhizom lengkuas dikenali sebagai ACA atau ‘acetoxychavicol asetat’. Bahan ini juga didapati dalam biji lengkuas. Bahan ini mempunyai peranan penting untuk mencegah penyakit kanser, masalah obesiti, masalah diabetes dan masalah gangguan saraf.

Kajian menggunakan tabung uji dan kajian ke atas tikus menunjukkan bahan ACA bertindak sebagai antikanser usus besar, antileukemia, antikanser payudara, antikanser prostat dan antikanser serviks.

Bahan ACA juga boleh bertindak untuk masalah asma

Kajian lengkuas sebelum ini lebih tertumpu pada rhizom tetapi jarang kajian dilakukan pada bunga. Bunga lengkuas mempunyai rasa sedikit pedas (seperti ‘wasabi’). Biasanya bunga lengkuas dimakan sebagai ulam.

Kajian yang dilakukan di University of Florida, USA mendapati bunga lengkuas lebih tinggi khasiat berbanding rizom lengkuas.

Bahan berkhasiat dalam bunga lengkuas juga berbeza berbanding rhizom lengkuas.

Bahan berkhasiat tertinggi dalam bunga lengkuas dikenal pasti sebagai AEA atau ‘1'-acetoxyeugenol asetat’.

Kajian yang dilakukan di Fakulti Sains, Universiti Malaya mendapati bahan AEA lebih kuat melawan sel kanser payudara berbanding bahan ACA.

Bahan AEA juga merupakan antibakteria yang kuat.

Walau bagaimanapun, kajian klinikal perlu dilakukan untuk lebih memahami tentang potensi bunga lengkuas sebagai bahan perisa makanan yang mempunyai nilai perubatan

Ph.D KMN Principal Scientist

Rujukan
1. Food Sci. Biotechnol. 19(4): 873-880 (2010 2. J Med Food 00 (0) 2020, 1–11 DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2019.4490 3. doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.02.027 4. Phytomedicine 17 (2010) 935–939

19/11/2023

Dari kebun ke kafe Roots by KebunKota

15/10/2023

06/10/2023

05/10/2023

From Farm to table - A 200 meters distance
And, from table to farm - A circular economy.

10/09/2023

😷Influenza merupakan penyakit yang disebabkan oleh virus yang menjangkiti saluran pernafasan. Virus influenza boleh tersebar kepada individu lain melalui titisan saluran pernafasan (respiratory droplets) ketika bersin, bercakap dan batuk.

🤧Wabak influenza lazimnya berlaku secara bermusim hanya mengakibatkan selesema (flu) ringan tetapi boleh mendatangkan jangkitan teruk kepada golongan berisiko tinggi seperti kanak-kanak, warga tua, wanita hamil dan individu yang menghidap penyakit kronik.

❗Oleh itu,orang awam dan golongan berisiko tinggi digalakkan untuk mendapatkan pelalian influenza bermusim secara tahunan yang ditawarkan oleh kebanyakan fasiliti kesihatan swasta di seluruh negara.

26/08/2023

21/08/2023

The Impact of Climate Change

SEASONAL fruits in South Korea could become vastly different in the following decades, as warmer temperatures will gradually reduce cultivable areas for popular fruit crops here. Apples, grapes and pears could slowly fade into the background, while tropical fruits such as mangoes and passion fruit take centre stage.

“We may not be able to see the change immediately. But, fruit crops that we will see at discount stores and traditional markets may change in the future. What we call seasonal fruits here may also change,” said Han Hyun-hee, a senior researcher at the Research Institute of Climate Change and Agriculture, a unit under the country's National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science.

South Korea eyes more tropical fruits as popular cold-weather fruits are hit hard by climate change and will lose most of their cultivation areas by 2070.

11/05/2023

Come get your organic Roselle tea at Roots by KebunKota

What did a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of hibiscus tea for weight loss find?The high blood pressure video I mentioned is Hibiscus Tea ...

30/04/2023

GEORGE TOWN: The sea around Penang is being assailed by a red tide: thick streaks of algal blooms in garish, bright pink streaks all around the island.

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Kuantan
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Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00
Saturday	09:00 - 12:00
Sunday	10:00 - 19:00

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Sustainability is an attitude.

Very few people know this: the idea of Kebun Kota really sprouted back in 2006. And yes – it was when Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth was first released, which earned an Oscar award a year later.

In the film, Gore presented the frightening consequences of man-induced climate change, shocking the audience on the severity back then by illustrating how much was at stake. Wittily, he then added, “As many know, the Chinese expression for ‘crisis’ (危機), consists of two characters side by side. The first is the symbol for ‘danger’, the second the symbol for ‘opportunity’.” Motivated, our founders, Mukhlis Chua and his family saw a gap for solid actions.

At that time, Kebun Kota was still a depleted quarry, once operated as a mining ground of granite and iron ore in the 70s. Two years later – in 2008, with newfound passion for urban farming and particularly aquaponics, they began the groundwork of transforming the brownfield into a greenfield.

In simpler words, a brownfield is any previously developed land that is not in use. It’s not productive, which essentially makes it a wasteland. A greenfield, on the other hand, refers to undeveloped land in the city transformed into useful urban lungs such as a farm – hence ‘Kebun Kota’ (which translates into ‘City Farm’ in Malay).

This is especially important at a time when sustainable consumption is never more urgent. In National Geographic’s Before the Flood, Leonardo DiCaprio romantically pointed out that we are right now, in fact, on the second frame of a five-century-old painting once hung on the wall of his childhood home – Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights.

Look closely enough at the middle frame, you’ll be able to notice Bosch’s detailed and vivid reflection on the frailties of humankind. And in the years following the first and second Industrial Revolutions, the continuity of our greed, complacence, and political realities had culminated in what scientists desperately wanted us to realize – that we’re well into the next mass extinction event (implied in the painting’s third frame) if we choose to idle around or just complain behind our screens.

So, where are we now between apocalypse and what most of humanity today perceives as a salvageable planet? Our collective aspirations as the supposed steward of our biosphere only seem to always face resistance, in varying forms – whether it’s special interests and lobbyists influencing political narratives, or bureaucracies within and among governments impeding crucial policies such as climate financing.

The answer for most seems to be this: awareness. Every now and then, we jump from one discourse about climate change to the next, and occasionally we find a sense of activism and inspiration in sustainability conferences. But beyond the resistance to some plastic bags, and in spite of our best intentions, we are still not moving fast enough.

What needs to be sustainable is no longer just our individual living routines, but much more importantly, the way we as a society, a species, function. In simpler words, our collective behaviors in production and consumption need to change. But this concept of change isn’t new. Every other UN climate conferences, you see activists staging one demonstration after another demonizing corporate greed – they call it ‘business as usual’. Yet, here’s what we don’t say enough: shouting manifestos is one thing, shifting our current business landscape is quite the other.

More than activists, we need entrepreneurs now. While the mission to challenge the status quo is not for the faint-hearted, it still has to be done. Like it or not, our largely capitalistic global economy runs its gears upon the production and consumption of our everyday goods. And as of today, this ‘economic software’ is mostly linear – we take whatever resources we need from the planet, make them into products, and everything that’s not used or consumed gets turned into waste.

Understanding how the circular economy works is only the first step (you can read about it here). Doing what needs to be done to transition our societies quickly enough from linear to circular is next. Yes, it’s urgent and needs to be quick. And for it to be quick, focusing on changing the consumers is simply the wrong strategy.

Here’s where disruption comes in. It is impractical to expect a 50-year-old multi-billion-dollar MNC to want to make the switch (such is the law of inertia). But when younger, informed small-timers – not one, not two, but hundreds of us – start off with the right reasons, models, and partnerships, change is imminent.

When hundreds of young FMCG businesses ditch single-use packaging, or when new manufacturers decide to go transparent with their procurement ethics, consumers are given more and better options. It changes perception and educates the public, gradually shifting purchasing and market practices. This in turn compels industries to adapt to the new way of doing business.

Having said enough, we know just how hard it is to pioneer change. While this works in theory, we believe there are many out there – young and eager, but lack the resources and avenues to actualize their good-willed business plans.

With the education we have today, and our increasingly digitized (and globalized) society, it is difficult not to wonder just why our market is not already full of businesses that base their cases on the wellbeing of people and the planet. Instead, even today real social enterprises either struggle with bad margins or have to risk competing with giants – often causing aspiring entrepreneurs to tread too carefully when marketing their products.

And perhaps the most crucial – the very idea of entrepreneurship is something our education system still struggles to inculcate. As much as we do talk about it to the youth in universities and colleges here in Malaysia, our reality never seems to be able to catch up with it. It sounds awesome and appeals to my young sense of social responsibility, but where do I find genuine investors and a coach? Is there a market here that will appreciate my company values? How do I go about all the nitty-gritty of company administration and financing? And above all, what do I do if I fail? Where do I find support and partners?

We are here to help. A decade and running, Kebun Kota has since 2018 found its new calling – to bring together young individuals and startups that want nothing but the circular economy to be our new reality. Today, already more than 10 of such bright minds are utilizing our entrepreneurship training platform to grow and manage multiple business projects with influences across Southeast Asia.

To change the narrative, you first change its characters. To change the economy, you change its players – or better, be the players.

Written by: Kelvin, April 2019

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