Community & Extension

Bringing soil science out of the lecture hall: urban gardening workshops, guest talks, newspaper columns, and institutional service that connect research to home gardeners and the public.

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Urban Farming & Gardening

  1. Lead facilitator, Grow, Prune & Propagate Workshop, organized by the Dept. of Land Management, Faculty of Agriculture, UPM, with Eats, Shoots & Roots (ESR). Sep 20, 2025. Wisma YWCA, Kuala Lumpur.
  2. Organizing chairperson, 'Soil-tastic Day', organized by the Dept. of Land Management, UPM, for World Soil Day 2023. Nov 18, 2023. Faculty of Agriculture, UPM.
  3. Regular writer for the "Plants & Gardens Subang Jaya" section of the SJ Echo newspaper. May 2019 – May 2021.
  4. Regular writer for the "Plant Doctor" section, Healthy Garden series, Home & Garden section, The Star newspaper. Apr 2023 – Oct 2024.
  5. Chairperson and lecturer, Urban Gardening Workshop 2019 Series: How to Have a Healthy Garden, organized by the Dept. of Land Management, UPM, and Gardeners' Gold MY. Jul 6 & 13, 2019. Faculty of Agriculture, UPM Serdang.
  6. Guest speaker, "General Plant Care: Types of Soil, Watering Method, Plant Nutrition & Pest Prevention", UCSI SDG office initiative (UCSI Green Corner). May 30, 2019. UCSI University.
  7. Guest speaker, "Plant Watering", Go Go Green 3, organized by Gardeners' Gold MY. Apr 6-7, 2019. The School @ Jaya One, Petaling Jaya.
  8. Guest speaker, Bloom & Grow Workshop, organized by Impact Communications and Setapak Central Mall, KL. Jul 6-8, 2018. Setapak Central Mall, Kuala Lumpur.
  9. Chairperson and lecturer, "Guide to Healthy Soils 2018 Workshop", organized by the Dept. of Land Management, UPM, the Malaysian Society of Soil Science (MSSS), and Eats, Shoots and Roots. Feb 3-4, 2018. Faculty of Agriculture, UPM Serdang.
  10. Lecturer and demonstrator, "Soil Health" Workshop, UNMC Sustainable Environmental Education Network (SEEN). Nov 21, 2017. UNMC, Semenyih, Selangor.
  11. Guest contributor, "Dear Plant Doctor" section, "Ready, Set Grow!" column by Eats, Shoots and Roots in the Star2 section of The Star newspaper. Ten articles, March to December 2017.
  12. Lead facilitator, "Sayur in the City: Edible Garden Workshops", Plant Food Workshop by Eats, Shoots and Roots. Feb 18, 2017. Bukit Gasing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
  13. Lead facilitator, "Sayur in the City: Edible Garden Workshops", Dirt, Soil & Earth Workshop by Eats, Shoots and Roots. Oct 8, 2016. Bukit Gasing, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.
Full media & press archive
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Memorandum of Understanding

Helped to initiate, develop, and complete the following MoU:

  1. 5-year MoU signed between Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and S. Seifullin Kazakh Agro Technical University (KATU), Astana, Kazakhstan. 2 July 2013.