A story that
starts with an orange

At the end of 2020, two young people in their twenties who had worked in community services met in Tuen Mun. They wanted to do something real with what little they had — a month later, Lab0ver was born.

Timmy cared about the community and wanted to support local farming: beyond selling veg, how could neighbourhoods and farms be better connected? The answer was food waste — the city has it, the farms need it.

We started on Tseng Choi Street, collecting neighbours’ fruit peel at street booths, fermenting it with Bokashi and taking it to farms in Kam Tin and Tin Shui Wai. From peel and eggshells to regulars crossing districts to drop off their scraps; from street booths to schools, universities and the community economy.

We’ve always been self-funded, without a steady income, and we learn as we go. But every time a neighbour tells us “I’ve started saving my peels”, it feels worth carrying on.