S2.6 Rice to Meet You

During the pandemic lockdown in 2020, some of us baked bread, other made Dalgona coffee, and Hao Pei started guerilla growing rice varieties on a terrace. In this episode, Hao Pei reveals the origin story of 飯醉集團 Secret (Rice) Society - a guerilla rice garden to save and share native rice varieties and vernacular growing knowledge located on a rooftop in Toa Payoh. He shares about his brushes with the Town Council due to ‘unauthorised planting’, as well as the erasure of native rice varieties tracing back to the Green Revolution and surgence of GMO seeds and hybrid varieties.Hao Pei believes that rice is more than just food to be consumed, it contains layers of knowledge. What are the stories do we tell about rice? What variety of rice do we consume in Singapore and why? Listen on and find out with us.Resources- Broken Rice Atlas - https://brokenriceatlas.net- - Secret Rice Society -https://www.instagram.com/secretricesociety/

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