It was going to be a hot day with the sun already shining fully at 7.30 am. Thankfully, it was still cool as my friends and I sauntered over to the football field at Kg Sungei Kayu Ara.

In the middle of it sat a bespectacled man with a walking stick leaning against his portable chair. Soon more volunteers joined us. We formed a circle around our sifu, Azlan Adnan.

“I first came across the term foodscape, meaning edible landscape, eight years ago from videos out of the US. Foodscapes were an offshoot and development of the 'Grow Food, Not Lawns' movement in the US where it is still illegal in many cities to grow anything but grass on your lawns.”

He told us that he had been creating foodscapes ...