It is Pesta Menuai in Malay langguage or Tadau Kaamatan in Kadazan langguage or the more popular Harvest Festival. So the day finally came to rejoice over 3 months long endurance with rooftop gardening. Dato Sri Mustapha Mohamed came to grace the occasion. Over a thousand turned up to support the colourful event, ranging from kindergarden children, students, mothers, fathers and as Sulong noted even elderly grandmothers.
The first chili harvested.
Dato Sri Mustapha put it in a decorative basket.
As planned, there were colouring contest for kindergarden children, essay competition for secondary school students, photography contest, flower and veggie arrangements for the ladies. So the crowd came in large numbers for the day. Exhibition booths were set for agencies/companies with agriculture interest. If tarian Sumazau is popular in Sabah during Tadau Kaamatan, over here kindergarden children showed something colourful with their steps.
the crowd, mothers, fathers and children
The crowd, front row
a little girl wishing to have clearer view
pa system spaghetti wires..... and the crowd
Front row: Fauzi, Kamarudin, Shab and Zairon
Dato Rohani was happy with the large turnout
Dato Ikmal came too.
Tanah Merah DO, Dato Ikmal and Hj Md Nor
Nik sharing a joke.
girls from nearby school
The registration going on..
The ladies helping out.
Kakdah was there too, far right, accompanying Pn Normah.
MC..... Radio Kelantan DJ Kak Wan and Rugayah
handling earlier events;
singing, dancing and nasyid.
handling earlier events;
singing, dancing and nasyid.
boys and girls queuing up for their show.
Dancing
a different group, a different dance
the smile..., confidence building up.
the children holding hands
another show, nasyid ready to get up the stage
nasyid
nasyid
Dikir Barat
MC..... ready for the main event.
Kakdah, front row with spectacles and her friends.
crowding over TokPa
Group Photo for the day.
It is about putting rooftop gardening across to the community,
about educating younger generation to be innovative
about saying Thank You God for bountiful harvest.
Rooftop gardening is no more foreign to the community. Everyone who get to the rooftop and briefed about rooftop gardening will get a certificate ~ friends of rooftop gardening. The number should swell to thousands by the end of the year. The team is targeting to be in Malaysian Book Of Record on the biggest number of rooftop gardening visitors! Now the team is entering into the next phase, that is marketing. They should work out where to sell chili centil. There is a long list of potential buyers. The first harvest is about 80 kilogram, sold the same day!
about educating younger generation to be innovative
about saying Thank You God for bountiful harvest.
Rooftop gardening is no more foreign to the community. Everyone who get to the rooftop and briefed about rooftop gardening will get a certificate ~ friends of rooftop gardening. The number should swell to thousands by the end of the year. The team is targeting to be in Malaysian Book Of Record on the biggest number of rooftop gardening visitors! Now the team is entering into the next phase, that is marketing. They should work out where to sell chili centil. There is a long list of potential buyers. The first harvest is about 80 kilogram, sold the same day!
(Thanks Nik for hundreds of lovely photos)
bangchik and kakdah
Earlier posts on rooftop gardening.
- July 8, 2011 rooftop vegetable gardening: heavy with green chili
- June 27, 2011 ROOFTOP GARDENING : gearing for a big harvest.
- June 15, 2011 rooftop vegetable gardening: chili flowering
- May 30, 2011 ROOFTOP GARDENING: they get everybody involved.
- May 18, 2011 rooftop gardening: Condition them for transplanting.
- April 28, 2011 Rooftop gardening: they rope me in
- April 19, 2011 Roof Top vegetable gardening
bangchik and kakdah
rooftop gardening - harvest festival!
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