Community farm Edible Garden City to leave Queenstown in June, pondering next steps

Edible Garden City, a community farm in Queenstown, Singapore, will close in June due to land repurposing. Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE – Community farm Edible Garden City (EGC) will lose its decade-old Queenstown home come end-June, following government decision to take back the land when the lease expires.

Experts say this is just one of many cases which highlight the difficulties of running socially minded farms in a country that prioritises food productivity.

EGC’s 8,557 sq m plot in Jalan Penjara, which it has shared with several other firms over the years, supplies produce to about 100 restaurants and 20 households weekly.

Roughly the size of 1.2 football fields, it also runs urban farming tours and horticulture therapy–based edible gardening workshops.

Since 2023, the urban farming pioneer has been attracting nearly 10,000 visitors, from pre-schoolers and university students to tourists, annually.

EGC’s lease had expired at the end of 2025, but this has been extended for six months to facilitate its transition elsewhere, said the Singapore Land Authority. The site is slated for future residential development.