A volunteer shares her home nursery

The Covid19 pandemic has confined us all to our homes limiting us from organising large scale plantation drives. But our environmental duty must continue! So, what can we do? Our volunteers have a solution.

One of our volunteers has been raising mango, jamun, pilkhan, bakain and peepal saplings at her terrace nursery this entire lockdown. All of them with whatever's available at home - mango and jamun seeds, milk and other food packets, and homemade compost. Yes! That's a zero budget nursery. And zero waste too!

How to set up a zero waste nursery?

- You don't have to buy planters. Just REUSE your milk and other plastic packets - prevent them from ending up in the landfills

- Collect the seeds of mango, jamun and other fruits/ vegetables at home and sow them in the packets

- Going for a morning walk? Seek out for neem seeds and peepal saplings and plant them

- You can also make compost/ fertilizer from your kitchen waste and use them for your saplings; your plants will love it!

Let's not allow this pandemic to put a hold on our environmental responsibilities! Let's keep doing our bit wherever we are!

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