By S. Balwinder Singh Lakhewalia (Professional Environmentalist)
Millions of trees are planted every year but only a small percentage survives. Reason is that 90% of people don’t know which plant to grow in respective season, where and how to plant and finally how to take care of it. The simplest details include unpacking a sapling, size and ingredient of the pit, light and water requirement, protection measures and initial care required.
The common mistakes done are planting the wrong sapling, not removing the plastic cover, using a smaller pit, no soil preparation, excess watering etc
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By Ms Rupinder Kaur (Organic Farmer) & Amrita Mangat
The kitchen garden is a small-scale version of a vegetable farm that enables you to grow and enjoy some of your own home grown herbs, fruits and vegetables and it only requires just a few hours of your time each week. It helps to promote a healthy lifestyle, growing your own fruits and vegetables reduce the amount of pesticides and insecticide we otherwise consume from commercially grown vegetables. Kitchen gardens can help you grow things at home and bring down the need to buy from the market, hence, save money on food purchase. On top of this the satisfaction and happiness you get is invaluable.
By Dr Rakesh Sharda
Hydroponics is a technique to grow plants in water than growing them in soil, thus avoiding the use of chemically produced fertilizers, pesticides and insecticides. It requires reusable water that is much less land requires din soil than traditional field farming. Many crops can be produced twice as fast in a well-managed hydroponic system. Indoor farming in a climate controlled environment means farms can exist in places where weather and soil conditions are not favourable for traditional food production. No chemical weed or pest control products are needed when operating a hydroponic system.
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By Mr. Manpreet Singh (Agri Doctor)
A rooftop garden is a man-made green space on the topmost level of residential or commercial building. It is the practice of cultivating crops or other plants on a rooftop using containers or grow-bags. Instead of soil the base used is of Cocopeat & vermiculite. This is a good domestic solution for Health conscious people who want to avoid the commercially grown pesticide laden vegetables and is becoming popular especially in urban areas. The set up generally contains of grow bags, automatic drip irrigation system, timers, organic nutrient containers etc and keeping in mind the health benefits, is economically feasible.
In today’s congested urban landscapes more building architects opt to develop rooftop gardens. It may provide food, temperature control, hydrological benefits, architectural enhancement, and recreational opportunities and if in large scale it may even have ecological benefits.
By Mr Rajpal Makhani
If you want to protect your Enviornment, don’t ever dispose-off your kitchen biodegradable waste in your routine garbage. By doing this you are consuming the land fllls faster that in turn is producing more methane gases and causing global warming. Moreover, we can easily convert our kitchen waste into black gold which is the purest form of fertilizer for our plants at home.
In this workshop you will learn the basics of Solid waste management that is a term used to refer to the process of collecting and treating solid wastes such as paper, food wastes, cardboards, plastic etc. Waste management is all about how solid waste can be changed and used as a valuable resource.
By Mr. Harsh Garg (Harwaval Punjab)
An eco-brick is a brick which is made with help of plastic bottles. These bricks can also be made at home and can be made by anyone. The idea is simple, that is filling up empty plastic bottles with small plastic waste. The plastic waste can be plastic bags, wrappers, packing etc. When the plastic bottles are tightly filled with such waste material they can withstand weight or pressure and can be used as bricks for various purposes like landscaping, decoration, furniture, outdoor sitting etc. This helps in cleaning of the environment and using of waste as something useful. Since plastic is non-biodegradable these bottles can be used for a long period of time but otherwise this would have been added to our landfills producing harmful gases.
Second way is to reduce your plastic consumption and we can immediately start with shifting to cloth bags. This workshop will also cover making or buying such carry bags made from waste cloth.
Rajesh Jain
Water saved is water gained! We know that world over we are running short of drinkable water and even now billions of people don’t have routine access to clean water.
To conserve water for ourselves and our future generations it is our responsibility to adapt all possible measures to save and replenish water. Water conservation is a method used for increasing the ground water levels which can be used in future. One way is by collecting rainwater from roofs and taking it to a storage tank through pipes. It is one of the simplest ways to save water with minimum cost and effort. The water collected in tanks can be used in any way thus reducing the dependency on other water resources.