Nur Hanim Ilias, Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain, Azran Mansor, Khairul Adham Ibrahim and Norizan Mt. Akhir
Keywords: Recycle Edible Garden, community, collaborative participation, masjid
Abstract: Recycle Edible garden (REG) is an initiative project that practically involved the researchers and designers together with the immediate community. In general, REG was composed to accommodate community with edible resources such as plants, herbs, fruits and vegetables for daily or annually purposes. The objectives of this REG are to (i) motivate community interaction through program involvement; (ii) minimizing living costs by self-produce of daily use plants; (iii) improving the community quality of health through gardening, interacting with neighbours and utilizing the harvested resources for events such as ‘kenduri’ and gathering. This garden has received unexpected attention from both the experts and public which makes REG significant for the community. The REG also apply the green living concept by implementation of rain water harvesting as the watering system irrigation and the used of recycle materials as plants containers and also give an attraction to the garden. The importance of this recycles edible garden are to connects and communicate between community besides accommodating each other needs through subsistence living. There were about 500 participants representing the researchers and designers, the masjid committee, the industry experts and learning institutional like university, college and school people and also the business entrepreneur nearby Bandar Seri Iskandar got involved in the REG development. A photographic method comprising the process, issues and situations will be shown and discussed. The results will interpret relevant information about the rationale, risks and recommendation of how REG would benefit and fold the community towards sustainability. The outcome of this study will uphold the benchmark in designing a recycle edible garden that would not only giving experience to the experts to work on the ground, but has also successfully engaged the community in contributing and achieving quality in subsistence living.