Echoes From the Hill: Ordinary Farmers, Extraordinary Voices
By Ong Ke Shin
June 2025 FEATURE
“TAKE THIS PAPAYA—it’s very sweet, from Penang Hill,” the vegetable seller handed me the fruit with a smile, her pride evident. As a regular visitor to the Air Itam morning market, I’ve heard this pitch countless times—vendors proudly proclaiming that their produce are grown on the Hill. But who are these people cultivating crops on the Hill instead of the flatland? How do they go about their lives? These questions were answered in “Echoes from the Hill”, a documentary aired...
Ong Ke Shin
is a biologist turned geographer who finds joy in experimenting with food and cherishing the diverse wildlife that rhythmically calls on her home garden.
