Urban Regeneration Practice Circle
What if your Thursday mornings felt different?
The Urban Regeneration Practice Circle is for individuals ready to go beyond attending one-off workshops or volunteering basic tasks.
Here, we create a month of learning and practicing together, and you have two months to experiment with volunteering or assisting with facilitation in areas you practice and value.
Over 12 weeks, you'll:
Learn to identify lesser-known edible plants, propagate them, and save seeds
Harvest, taste, and prepare food and tea from garden harvests
Build and tend aerobic compost heaps
Practice guiding one another
Enjoy quiet time and meaningful conversations
This is a guided experience for 8 people max. It is slow, hands-on, and rooted in a private outdoor garden in Singapore.
By Week 12, you'll have experienced and practiced identification of edible plants, nature-based gardening and composting, and preparing food and drinks from the garden — and a growing confidence to weave these into daily life, or explore pathways into volunteering and regenerative livelihoods.
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Founding cohort: April 2026
Program dates:
Phase 1 (guided, weekly): 16 Apr, 23 Apr, 30 Apr, 7 May
Phase 2 (self-directed): 8 May – 25 Jun, with check-ins on 21 May and 4 Jun
Completion session: 2 Jul
Investment: $600 (including Luma admin fee)
Luma will prompt you to enter card or PayNow details when you apply. No payment is made until your place is confirmed.
Max 8 participants. Application form closes when spots are filled. Further details are shared by email to successful applicants.
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Facilitator Bio: Tan Geok Kuan
Geok Kuan is the founder of Ground Nerd Farm and Juan Herbal Cuisine, and has been practicing herbalism since 2009. She is an advocate for bringing locally grown and wild edibles into everyday cooking and life.
Since 2017, she has shared her knowledge through public workshops on cooking with edibles, tea brewing, and urban foraging — and was featured on Channel 8's "City Foragers" for her practice. In 2020, she published 都市野菜小品, a practical guide to edible plants that thrive in Singapore and their many uses.
In this program, Geok Kuan leads with place and plant knowledge, identification of lesser-known edibles and harvesting them, and food preparation of garden harvests.
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Facilitator Bio: Cuifen Pui
Cuifen is the co-creator of Food Citizen and has been active at the intersection of food, sustainability, climate action, and community since 2015. Her work is quiet, grounded, and relational — she creates conditions for people to discover what they value and how they want to contribute.
She has initiated and co-led community experiments including Foodscape Collective, Project Black Gold, and Singapore Youth for Climate Action, and has designed programs for schools, businesses, and social organisations through Food Citizen.
She also provides life coaching to professionals wanting to shift into a lifework that feels more aligned and nature- or people-focused.
In this program, Cuifen holds space for reflection, facilitates quiet time in the garden, guides with compost-making and nature-based gardening practices, and supports participants in finding their own path into regenerative practice.