2021 PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
We are honoured to have been recognised with the 2021 President's Award for the Environment (Organisation).
Read more about the award below.
Impact Enterprise Excellence Award (SME)
Sustainability Impact Awards 2024
Edible Garden City is honoured to be awarded the Impact Enterprise Excellence Award (SME) at the Sustainability Impact Awards 2024. The award is jointly presented by The Business Times and UOB to recognise our efforts in not just being sustainable, but also making an everlasting impact on the community and the environment.
We would like to thank our corporate partners, chef collaborators, foodscape clients, Citizen Box subscribers and the wider EGC family. This wouldn't have been achieved without your support over the years.
We encourage fellow Singaporeans to Grow Our Own Food and strengthen food resilience through soil-based edible gardens and programmes.
By fostering more conscious communities, we have made a positive impact on the environment and have been able to extend more opportunities to the disadvantaged.
We hope to continue to create a lasting impact on the environment and cultivate an inclusive society while planting the seeds for a greener tomorrow!
2021 PRESIDENT'S AWARD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT (ORGANISATION)
We are honoured to have been recognised with the
2021 President’s Award for the Environment (Organisation).
The award gives us renewed motivation to continue working hard towards food resilience, particularly in encouraging Singaporeans to grow our own food.
We are proud to represent the agriculture industry here in Singapore. We are a small but growing industry that is focused on achieving the 30 by 30 goal - to grow 30% of Singapore's nutritional needs by 2030. Food resilience and how it relates to sustainability is an important consideration to make, and we want to highlight the balance that we can make – natural farming and indoor climate-controlled agriculture can work hand-in-hand.
2023 AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE INTERNATIONAL GREEN SPACE AWARD (CAPITASPRING)
The Australian Institute of Horticulture awarded the 1-Arden Chef's Garden the International Green Space Award at their 2023 Awards Night on 27 October 2023. The garden opened to the public in April 2022, and is located at the 51st floor of CapitaSpring (88 Market Street), is one of two international recipients, and is the tallest edible garden in the world. The space is also open to the public every weekday.
The Edible Garden City team designed, built and is maintaining the garden as not only an inviting and visually captivating space, but also to supply to three 1-Group restaurants within the building, two of which (Kaarla and Oumi) are also located mere footsteps away at the 51st floor. About 90kg a month of fresh edible flowers, leafy greens, fruiting vegetables and garden herbs are harvested.
SG ENABLE THE ENABLING MARK (SILVER)
We are proud to receive the Enabling Mark (Silver) Accreditation for our efforts as an inclusive employer. SG Enable, who gives the Accreditation, considered hiring practices , employment structures, support systems for special needs employees and engagement with inclusive vendors and partners.
This recognition motivates us to further diversify our hiring and to deepen our inclusive human resource practices.
PRESIDENT'S CHALLENGE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE OF THE YEAR 2021 - FINALIST
We are proud to be one of the finalists for the
President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Award 2021.
Inclusive employment and care farming is close to our heart, and is one of the key driving forces for what we do.
The time of self-serving companies has passed. With rising social, environmental and healthcare issues, organisations play a key role in championing social causes. We are honoured to be acknowledged for our work. More so, we are inspired by the incredible contributions other social enterprises have made to their causes. Find out more here.
LIAS (SILVER) DESIGN & BUILD - URBAN FARM at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore
The Urban Farm at PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore, which we have designed and built for the hotel team, has won the Landscape Industry Association of Singapore (LIAS) Design and Build Silver Award. The project was recognised for its aesthetic appeal, practical usage in farm-to-table - supplying to the restaurant, bar and spa - as well as in for the adopted sustainable farming methodology, with the incorporation of composting and natural farming methods.
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF HORTICULTURE -
GREEN SPACE INTERNATIONAL AWARD
The Funan Urban Farm was awarded the Green Space International Award by the Australian Institute of Horticulture in 2021.
The Urban Farm was recognised for its role not just as an aesthetic and productive garden, but also as a vital community space for gardeners from all walks of life. Read more about the award here.
GREEN AWARDS SINGAPORE - COMMUNITY
The Green Awards is part of the GreenTech Festival, and it celebrates innovation and sustainability. In 2022, The Green Awards had its inaugural Singapore edition.
Edible Garden City was awarded the Green Award in the Community category for its achievements in urban greening and nature-based eduction. Read more about the award here.
The image on the right is courtesy of Green Awards.
DUBAI EXPO GLOBAL BEST PRACTICE PROGRAMME
Edible Garden City's closed loop farming solution has been selected as one of the 25 projects (out of 1,175 submissions) to be showcased at the Dubai Expo 2020, under the Global Best Practice Programme.
The selected projects are aimed at tackling global issues like hunger, climate change and social inequality, and we are excited to be given the unique opportunity to share about our solution, and to learn from organisations and governments from around the world.
DBS FOUNDATION GRANT AWARDEE
At Edible Garden City, we are working hard to create a better tomorrow for our community and the world, one leaf at a time. It’s not an easy task, and it requires a lot of support as we learn and grow as an urban farming startup in space-tight Singapore. And so, we are extremely thankful and honoured to be a DBS Foundation Social Enterprise Grant Awardee 2017.
Their invaluable support has made it possible for us to innovate and create a totally new microgreens system, with recirculating irrigation that uses 90% less water and 50% less substrate. It is also much simpler for our farmers with special needs to learn and use, and we can now focus more on other tasks like expanding our green spaces and creating fresh new farm-to-you products!
TEMASEK FOUNDATION ECOSPERITY GRANT
The support from Temasek Foundation Ecosperity has enabled us to test-bed our vision for the Future of Farming in Singapore. We have embarked on building a two-storey farm at our Queenstown farm. The container farm will integrate different farming systems to grow a myriad of nutritious herbs, vegetables and mushrooms, with minimal waste.
The container farm is also designed to be a plug-and-play system, and a possible solution for activating under-utilised rooftop and car park spaces into productive land. These climate-controlled mobile farms can also be placed in housing estates, providing conveniently-located employment to marginalised communities, as well as providing easy access to local produce to all Singaporean residents.
UBS SOCIAL INNOVATOR
In 2016, UBS wanted to support social enterprises that are helping to address society’s most pressing challenges. Edible Garden City identified issues in food security, food production efficiency, manpower resourcing in agriculture and awareness of farming, and presented our innovative solutions to UBS.
Click on the icon to the right for more details on the UBS Social Innovator programme, and to read about Edible Garden City's solutions to solve the raised issues.
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS AWARDS
Edible Garden City was acknowledged at the Sustainable Business Awards 2019, with a Special Recognition Award under the Social Enterprise category.
Click on the icon to the right to read the full list of winners at the Sustainable Business Awards.
BEST SUSTAINABLE URBAN TOURISM PRODUCT OF SINGAPORE - PARTNER
EGC is honoured to be named as partner recipient for the award presented to Restaurant Labyrinth for Best Sustainable Urban Tourism Product of Singapore, under the theme Gastronomy Tourism, by the ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Awards.
