Sundowner Nature Experience Centre, 272 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore
If the flavour of honey is a record of the ecosystem that produced it, what does Singapore's food system taste like, and what would need to change for that answer to be different?
Offsite Location: Sundowner Nature Experience Centre, 272 Upper Bukit Timah Road, Singapore
One in three bites of food depends on pollination. Wild bee populations have fallen by over 90% since the 1960s. Most food security conversations never mention either of these facts.
Clarence became an accidental beekeeper when he found a colony in his home and decided to call a rescuer instead of pest control. He has since saved over five million bees across Singapore, built a rooftop farm that demonstrates a complete circular ecosystem, and changed local council policy along the way.
This learning journey moves through the whole system with Clarence: the garden, the rescued colonies, and a honey tasting drawn from varieties across Asia, each one a record of what the bees ate and where they flew. It is an experience that is sensory and intellectual at once, and it ends with a question that is hard to shake: what does our food system actually taste like, and what would it take to change that?
