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Covid the kickstarter

It all started before Wuhan became a household name. “I bought an eight-acre lifestyle block in October 2019, and moved my family here. The plan was to cultivate the land in a few years’ time, as and when our life goals changed. Then six months later, Covid struck, and all of us were stuck at home,” Singh says.

But, ever the one to get involved in new projects and solve complex problems, Singh decided to not wait, and launched Kingseat Organics in April 2020 (during the first level 4 lockdown), marking around two acres of the block to grow organic vegetables.

“Out of this we have used 1.25 acres to date, and the rest is being used for collecting rain water and growing carbon crops which are

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