Setting Up Nursery

Setting Up Nursery - Week 02

What to do when a pandemic prohibits you from organizing large scale events?

DECENTRALIZE! And do whatever is possible.

Two of our volunteers woke up to a rainy morning, thankfully, to setup a small nursery in their neighbourhood park. Fortunately, they were able to secure permission for the same from their residents welfare association.

What kind of saplings are they preparing? Well, they had been saving the seeds of jamun and mango that they were relishing after lunch and dinner. And they were also saving their milk packets.

So, REUSING their milk packets they have sowed seeds of jamun and mango. They also collected some neem seeds that nature had showered generously in the park.

It was raining heavily so they couldn't continue much. However, they do seem determined to make this a regular habit. Little steps can take us a long way! We hope to have a fairly large number of saplings by the time we reach next year's monsoon.

And hopefully, the world around us would be in a better situation, to allow us to attract large gatherings so that we can continue with our meetups! Until then... let's all of us do whatever is possible!

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