Not many university graduates would want to spend their afternoons among slimy bullfrogs, but for Chelsea Wan, it was a natural calling.
Her father Wan Bock Thiaw started Jurong Frog Farm (JFF) in 1981 when he foresaw potential in the farming of American bullfrogs, and 32-year-old Ms Wan joined the family business in 2006, armed with a sociology degree from the National University of Singapore and a bout of new ideas to further rejuvenate the farming trade.
Today, together with her younger brother and her parents, Ms Wan oversees a 1.2-hectare Lim Chu Kang farm plot that is home to almost 20,000 bullfrogs. The farm regularly conducts educational farms tours and produces frog meat and hashima in dried and ready-to-drink bottled forms to restaurants and supermarkets islandwide.
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Watch our video interview with Chelsea below as she muses on her motivations for joining the family trade and her hopes for the next generation of young, urban farmers.
