Tending to food, place, and one another.
Rooted in Singapore's urban spaces, Food Citizen is a practice-led educational venture curious about how we nourish ourselves, one another, and the nature within our neighbourhoods.
Learn
Discover the connections between food, nature, urban ecosystems, and us. Topics include composting, gardening, the food we eat, food waste - and the different choices we can make as Earth's regeneration stewards. We offer school assembly talks, classroom workshops and customised programs.
Experience
Small group sessions to deepen understanding through doing and being in real world settings. Engage in hands-on activities — from preparing food with local edibles or rescued food, to composting to gardening, and caring for urban nature.
Steward
Small group sessions facilitated by practitioners who make time to care for urban nature in selected neighbourhoods. Apply knowledge in composting and gardening as we explore what it means to be a Earth steward in a city as urbanised as Singapore. Build self-trust, interdependence, and responsibility for living systems around us.
Our Customers
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 content brings in global knowledge with local context, and highlights what people are doing at home and with our communities.
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Workplace
Teams seeking team bonding sessions that weave with CSR, ESG, and community engagement. Our outdoor sessions build shared shared understanding through learning and doing. These can be located at the workplace premises, selected neighbourhoods, or partner locations.
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Communities
Small groups who are 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.
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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
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Email us at hello@foodcitizen.sg or fill in the form below.
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