Bollywood Veggies

Bollywood Veggies Organic Farm (also known as Bollywood Veggies) is a farming collective and organic growing education center located in the Kranji district of North West Singapore.[1][2] The center was launched in 2000 by Ivy Singh-Lim and her husband, former NTUC FairPrice chief executive, Lim Ho Seng, as a project to run after they had both retired from their previous careers.[3][4] Neil Humphreys covered the center in his 2006 book Final Notes From a Great Island.[5]

In 2010 Bollywood Veggies was charged with failing to have its buildings inspected by a structural engineer or hold the inspections after several requests that they do so. Singh-Lim and Seng stated that they did not own the buildings on the center's property (as they were leasing the land[6] ) and that they had not received any prior notices about the requested inspections, to which the courts stated that they were the legal owners of the buildings.[7] They were later cleared of the charges on March 25, 2011, after a judge ruled that it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Bollywood Veggies had received the notices.[8]

References

  1. ^ Peter K. L. Ng, Richard Corlett, Hugh T. W. Tan (2011). Singapore Biodiversity. Editions Didier Millet. p. 201. ISBN 9789814260084.
  2. ^ Aziz, Hatta. "Bollywood Veggies and its 'praying hands' bananas". Travel CNN. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ^ Lee Si, Min. "Bollywood Veggies - Singapore's very own farm and countryside". Yahoo News. Archived from the original on 31 August 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  4. ^ "My Business: Finding paradise and success in retirement". BBC News. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  5. ^ Humphreys, Neil (2006). Final Notes From A Great Island. Marshall Cavendish Editions. pp. 127–128. ISBN 9789814398961.
  6. ^ Oakes-Ash, Rachael (22 March 2013). "The plot thickens". SMH. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Bollywood Veggies fails to get charges dropped". MSN. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  8. ^ "Bollywood Veggies cleared of building law charges". Straits Times. Retrieved March 27, 2011.