Tending to place, food, life, and one another
Rooted in Singapore’s urban spaces, Food Citizen is an educational partner connecting schools, organisations, and groups to food, soil, living systems, and the choices we make on a day-to-day basis.
In Singapore’s fast-moving city, we believe that choosing to step away from the default and rediscover our role as being part of a living world is the most important decision we can make in our lifetimes.
Through programs, workshops, hands-on practice, and community gatherings, we invite people of all ages to explore these invisible links in ways that build self-trust, togetherness, and care. From schools and workplaces to neighbourhood gardens, we are part of a growing movement choosing to live better, eat better, and care more deeply for our shared living world.
How we grow together
Learn
Discover the invisible links between food, soil, living systems, and our choices
Practice
Join small-group sessions to build your skills through doing
Steward
Apply learnings and practice in real-world settings. Contribute to the regeneration of our neighbourhoods and living systems
Who we usually design programs for
Schools & educators
Schools looking to enrich curricular learning or applied learning with theory and hands-on experiences connecting soil biology, wildlife, food, and humans. Our practitioners bring global knowledge with local context, and guide what educators or students can try at home or in the school setting.
Workplace
Teams seeking team bonding sessions that weave with CSR, ESG, and community engagement. We focus on building shared understanding through learning and doing. These can be located at the workplace premises, selected neighbourhoods, or partner locations.
Community Groups
Groups starting community gardens or kitchens and want to identify local edibles, compost locally abundant organic material, nurture biodiverse gardens, or make meals with harvests or rescued food.
Part of a larger movement
Food Citizen is part of a growing movement in Singapore — people choosing to live better, eat better, and care more deeply for food, soil, one another, and the living world around us.
Our programmes and events create opportunities to be in urban nature, to explore our everyday neighbourhoods, and to examine the food we buy, cook, eat, and waste. We create room for like-minded strangers to meet, explore, learn, and steward life together. In a fast-moving city, these gatherings invite us to step away from the pace of daily life, to see familiar environments with fresh perspectives, and to practise making better choices — from classrooms and offices, to markets and kitchens, to parks, gardens, and public libraries.
Food Citizen is a self-sustaining venture. We pay our invited freelancers fairly, and any surplus after operating costs goes towards free and nominal-fee events for the broader community. We also support selected community-based projects — from public libraries to communal gardens — where people are growing food, composting, and regenerating life in their neighbourhoods.
Pancakes as a way to explore alternative grains: Foo Peiying shared her journey that led to experimenting with wheat alternatives. Everyone got to taste pancakes made from different grains.
Karen Yip Taylor, founder of Summit Rescues, shared her journey in food rescue — showing how it can address food insecurity with dignity, care, and collaboration. The session was organised by Cuifen Pui, with support of Food Citizen and Jurong Library.
Amaani and Mindy reading at 'Top 10 weirdest critters of Singapore's rainforest', a book of poems penned by Amaani and illustrated by local illustrator, Clarice. Both are volunteers of Cicada Tree Eco Place. The storytime session was organised by Cuifen Pui, with support of Food Citizen and Jurong Library.
Connect with us
Email us at hello@foodcitizen.sg or fill in the form below.
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