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FORT-Mysore
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FORT: Friends Of Roadside Trees. Though Mysore-centric, the message fits all places. It's about taking care of trees in our neighbourhood; about celebrating life by planting on vacant public space.
- Author: GV Krishnan
- Listed in: Green Volunteering
- Tags: Ecology tree enviornment barren land in 2004 honge three years later sapgreen
Recent Posts
\'Green\' MLC
Mr K T Srikantegowda, MLC, has used his public position and stature to influence people and officials to join him in a mission to plant trees in his area. He is reported to have planted 22,000 saplings during the last five years.To mark the first ann...
Revisiting Mysore schoolyard banyan
We have been here before. A recent meeting with Vinay of Royal Mysore Walks threw up some ideas on getting the grand old Mysore banyan on tourist map. It is now on Facebook - Mysore BanyansThe banyan on the Baden Powell schoolyard has been so m...
Ashwin's take on planting
Although I always loved planting trees, I never used to get into the grassroot level. Recently, Aditya, a SJCE student and volunteer at Vivekananda youth forum convinced me to start tree planting in a different way; No laborers or money involved but ...
SAPLINGS AS THAMBOOLAM
The thamboolam is a mandatory take home at all Indian festivals and ceremonies, at weddings especially. The thamboolam bag (made of plastic, cloth or some polyester fibre, rarely of paper) contains a coconut or grapefruit, a couple of betel leaves, a...
Planting on pavement
To prevent haphazard growth of roots of roadside trees, insert a pipe along with the root of the plant into the soil so that the water supplied does not flow horizontally. This method will control the growth of the root and ensure that the roots gro...
Planting hazzles
Some years back, I asked the local corporator to join me in planting a tree. He came, planted the sapling himself, posed for the photos and left. A few days later, someone had vandalized the sapling and I planted another one in its place. The reason ...
