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Green Souls, an NGO working for sustainable farming, has created a green patch on the terrace of Dadar’s Our Lady's Home

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An aerial view of the terrace garden of Dadar's Our Lady's Home
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Green Souls, an NGO that works for sustainable farming in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, has been doing good work. One of their projects includes the community garden at Dadar’s Our Lady's Home, an orphanage that houses 130 boys. But what is really interesting is the location of this garden—it’s been set up on the building’s terrace! 

Not the usual gardening

Around two and a half years ago, Green Souls created this organic terrace garden with the support and coordination from the orphanage. What stands out here is the way the gardening has been done—it’s zero budget gardening. Trupti Kedari from Green Souls shares, “We don’t buy soil; we teach the boys to use the high-nutrient compost produced by managing the kitchen waste. Apart from using the kitchen waste, even leaves, twigs, coconut shells and wood logs are collected and turned into compost.” The compost is then used as soil and various types of vegetables and fruits are grown in it. What’s even more commendable is that Green Souls does not buy pots for the plants; they reuse buckets, cardboard boxes and other such things to grow the plants. Green Souls strongly follows the rule of not using red soil, not only because it’s a zero budget idea, but also because it believes that for every piece of garden that they build in the city, a patch of forest land, somewhere, is destroyed. 

A green haven

Their garden blooms with fruits and veggies according to the seasons and on an average, there around 50 varieties of plants in it. Some of the plants that they grow include tapioca, banana, papaya, potato, basil, cabbage and cauliflower. Another interesting thing that Green Souls does is growing multiple plants in one bucket. Kedari explains, “In one bucket, we grow three to four varieties of plants; for example, we have been growing cabbage and cauliflower in one bucket.” Since it is a community garden, the harvest is offered to the orphanage’s kitchen, which is then use to cook the food. The entire process of gardening involves boys of all ages from the orphanage. This has created a sense of responsibility towards the garden, and has sensitised the boys towards the environment. Moreover, they have learnt and adapted to organic food. The overall result is that these boys are extremely excited about taking care of the garden and they volunteer often with Green Souls.

Green Souls’ multiple crops in one pot! 

Watch how to grow multiple crops in one pot in a video created by Green Souls and uploaded on their Facebook page ‘Green Souls’: 
www.facebook.com/GreenSoulsMumbai/?fref=ts 
Visit their website for more details: www.greensouls.in 

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