Yeayy to Green Fingers!

Green fingers they say - where you can keep your plants alive and good at making plants grow. But how true is this? I do believe in knowing the right techniques can keep your plants grow and alive and I've always wanted to learn how to grow plants healthily and how to home farming from someone who is a pro at doing so. I hope one day I can grow my own veggies and fruits from my small little farm to ensure I consume fresh and healthy produces. 

Luckily, I met James, the founder of Uniworco Enterprise and Jesslyn, the edible garden consultant. They are two incredible and a humble couple with fantastic business initiatives. Uniworco promotes edible garden through organic gardening and home farming to anyone out there who are concerned and want to grow your own healthy and clean food. Best of all, you don't have to wait till you own a farm to grow your own food, you can grow them in your balcony, garden or yard, today! We know that the best food is to grow our own food with our own hands right? You know they are fresh, and most importantly, they grow without chemicals and free from pesticides and dangerous and unwanted substances, which prevents us from being ill. 

Uniworco focuses on creating public awareness by sharing, how can you grow your own organic edible garden. Besides that, in the long run, Uniworco aims to do home farming on a large scale in which we can have urban/community farms in the cities in Malaysia so that we can get to consume healthy clean food be it rich or poor. In this light, we can recruit those who need to work on the farm and provide more job opportunities and at the same time can develop them with the right skills of home farming. Some portion can be distributed to the underprivileged. Uniworco is one of MAGIC SE from Cohort 01 - Social Enterprise that focuses on this noble effort, if not them, who? If not now, when? 

With Uniworco, home farming is simple, easy, portable, interesting and manageable. Fret not, if you have zero or little knowledge of home farming or how to grow fresh produces from your garden or backyard, Uniworco is the answer. 

Uniworco has 3 different types of learning programs:

★ Workshops which participants can come and attend classes
★ Private workshops that they conduct at clients' place in Klang Valley if participants are unable to attend their classes
★ Specially training programs which to be conducted at clients' places in Klang Valley. A popular program (suitable for individual, couples, or a small family of maximum 4 pax) which clients can learn at the same time and they will assist you to set up a mini veggie garden. Special introductory offer of RM 650 with full materials provided and step by step guide with a hands-on session

For me and hubby, as a start, we want to know how to germinate vegetables using the right techniques. Once we learn the right skills, we can start our home farming slowly. We attended their workshop on "How to germinate vegetables using the right techniques" and amazingly we learned a lot of things from theory, the demos and especially the hands-on session! Great stuff is materials are provided and not just that, we get to take home 4 pots of vegetables, which two of the pots we have germinated are Hong Kong Sawi and another two pots are Bayam Merah which are organically grown baby veggies that we need to care once we're back. We also get to taste their special tea from their organically grown fresh produces. the ones we tried are mulberry tea and soursop tea. It tasted fresh and on point. Plus point, we even get certificates, cool! :D

We had so much fun and earned much insightful information during the session. Here are some notes that I took during the workshop for you guys to understand a little bit about germinating your veggies.

How to germinate vegetables using the right techniques

Stage 1 germination

☘ Goods Seeds

☘ Quality soil

☘ Right method

Stage 2 successful sprouting

Stage 3 successful repotting

Stage 4 successfully harvesting

☘ Bentong ginger is the best ginger

☘ Tomatoes, brinjal, eggplant and chili easily affected by insects. So, need prevention

☘ Pesticides, weedicides and chemical antibiotic - case in honeydew in Australia got bacteria and can cause diarrhea

☘ Mulberry tea - one sachet to 250 ml of boiling water between 98C to 100C, cover the cup and steep for 10 minutes. You can enjoy the tea for 4 rounds with just only one sachet!

☘ Water it daily and fertilize weekly

☘ Tasted mulberry tea and loved it!
❣ Good for complexion

❣ Liquid calcium helps to regulate blood sugar level

❣ Helps to improve vision and rich in antioxidant

☘ Food security is important

It is very important to have good quality soil, besides the following basic conditions: 

☘ Sufficient sunlight

☘ Water

☘ Good air ventilation

☘ Water - watering can with small holes

☘ Fertilize weekly

☘ Treatment: 
❣ Soil treatment: once a week with Uniworco organic insect repellent
❣ Plant treatment: 2 to 3 times a week by spraying Uniworco organic insect repellent on the leaves for prevention of plant pest and diseases 

What Uniworco does in a nutshell

🌱 Promote edible garden for every household through organic gardening and home farming,
🌱 Make home farming simple, easy, portable, manageable and interesting by introducing fresh produces grow in pots due to the limitation of space in the city,
🌱 Provide total solutions for the sustainable growth and development for the fresh produces to grow healthily by introducing right growth techniques using special formulated organic planting soil and choose the right selection of fertilizers and plant care that are Eco friendly,
🌱 Encourage consumers to grow their own fresh produces due to health issue, food safety and food security,
🌱 Create public awareness and emphasize the importance of growing healthy clean food by conducting workshops on “How to grow your own organic edible garden DIY workshops”,
🌱 Assist clients to transform their existing home or balcony gardens into a productive planting space,
🌱 Participate in events, exhibitions, roadshows to promote organic edible gardens and create public awareness on the importance of consuming and growing healthy clean food without the use of chemicals to protect the environment and to live in a healthy lifestyle.

Another good news is you can purchase their products online. Look for Uniworco, just download the app from Play Store and you can start ordering now.

❣ Uniworco products can also be purchased online on Facebook, Shopee and PG Mall, besides Youbeli.

Our veggies now! >3

If you are as excited as me to learn more about growing your own veggies and fresh produces, learn the right techniques with Jess and James from Uniworco. They will teach you step-by-step guide and provide you answers to those burning questions you have regarding home farming. Simply get in touch with them through their Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/uniworco/ and you can also WhatsApp @ 016-7133975, for them to assist you in your queries, buying organic products and to join their upcoming learning programs. 

We may live in a different world, but we share the same planet. It's important to grow our own food and more plants the right way to protect ourselves, loved ones and mother nature. 

It's never too late to learn. Start today, and you'll be thankful to yourself tomorrow. :)