D. Circular Food System & Zero Waste
D/1 Food Forest Farm – The Kind Grower
Mr Khoo Peng Keat, Food Forest Farm – The Kind Grower
What is Nutrient-Dense Pesticide-Free Farming?
What is Circular Food System?
Khoo Peng Keat
Co-founder & Director, Food Forest Farm I Bilberries Blue I Moonriver Lodge I The Kind Grower I Sigar Highlands Sustainable Development Centre I The Forest Keepers
Khoo Peng Keat holds a BA (Hons) Finance from University of Manchester, UK and MSc in Construction Management from University of Birmingham, UK. He has close to 30 years’ experience in business start-ups ranging from social enterprises , hospitality, F&B, project management and specialises in agribusiness development integrating agricultural production, value-added processing, packaging, distribution and marketing activities.
In 2004, he co-founded Bilberries Blue, a sustainable enterprise that co-builds and offers an ecosystem of biodiversity of sustainability, resources, and funding. In the founding years he played a key role providing strategy, financial and professional advisory and enterprise support development to a portfolio of start-up clients in various industries.
Since 2005, Peng Keat has been involved in Sigar Highlands, a 943 acres sustainable township development in the Malaysian Titiwangsa Highlands Mountains with a purpose to champion rainforest highlands ecology conservation, restoration and innovation of nature-based solutions for climate resilence, food sustainanability and fully inclusive birth-to-lifelong care of communities. In 2009 he returned to Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia and was appointed Executive Director in Sigar Highlands Sdn Bhd to spearhead the ground mobilisation of the development. He is currently working on the development masterplan of three business verticals of Food, Biodiversity and Wellness.
In 2009, he co-founded Moonriver Lodge, a 2 acres temperate highlands farmstay located in the valley of Sigar Highlands. Over the years Moonriver Lodge has become a special space for many providing refuge, space , hope, inspiration and especially love.
In 2012, he co-founded Food Forest Farm Sdn Bhd located in the southern hills of Sigar Highlands with an ambitious vision to steward an integrated approach to grow good and safe food using sustainable practises in symbiosis with biodiversity. Over the years through combining traditional farming practices, growing technologies and deep knowledge of local ecosystem and plant physiology the farm has grown to be the biggest certified pesticide-free farm in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia. He continues to explore solutions for the future of food in areas such as plant nutrition, energy generation using solar and micro-hydro technology, sustainable food processing, composting to move to zero waste from linear to circular business. The core principle of his work essentially starts with a culture of kindness which then translates to action with love and care, coupled with a resilient attitude to continuously be successful in growing vegetables high in nutrition in a climate which is becoming very unpredictable.
In 2022, he co-founded The Kind Grower to expand the pesticide-free food supply chain globally to qualify and monetize the economic value of the sustainable agroecosystem supporting pesticide-free vegetables production for the benefit of all involved. His work includes branding, product development and active sharing and introduction of fresh pesticide-free vegetables direct from farm to market, to maintain a healthy base for all those relying on agriculture for their livelihoods.
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Food Forest Farm
Food Forest Farm was established with a vision of providing responsible and sustainable agroforestry and agriculture in the markets as well as establish methodical, portable & trainable models for a future of sustainable land use that involves agriculture and agroforestry.
Food Forest Farm journeyed
- from a conviction to a dream
- to innovations to farm assets development to systematic growing systems
- to product development to packing to building its own logistics and distribution
- to supermarket merchandising to supermarket floor promotions
to sharing, collaborating and educating about Safe Good Food through sheer tenacity, commitment and conviction that the way forward for Safe Good Food is one of safety, nutritional diversity, knowledge and integrity.
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