Men and women standing shoulder to shoulder behind a green banner reading A step towards a greener world, rows of labelled knee-high saplings planted in bare stony earth in front of them

Palak Bajpai

Bridge the Gap — Healthy Cities

Miyawaki Plantation Project

Jabrella, Bharsaua and two further campuses · Uttar Pradesh · February and March 2026

Four dense little forests inside school and college gates: 1,025 plants across 2,120 square feet, put in on four dated days in 2026. Another 435 saplings are still held back for the next site.

1,025

Plants in the ground

four planting days, February and March 2026

2,120 sq ft

Total area planted

four planting days, February and March 2026

4

Green spaces created

February and March 2026

6,000

People reached

Modelled · February and March 2026

The work

A forest inside a school gate

None of the four plots is large — four hundred square feet at Jabrella, a thousand at The Good Harvest School. Miyawaki planting is what fits ground that size.

Buy for the next site as well

Fourteen hundred and sixty plants procured, one thousand and twenty-five in the ground, four hundred and thirty-five held back rather than crowded in.

Plant on ground people use

Two primary schools, a school and a college. The four plots sit where children and students walk past them every day of term.

Plant when the labour is there

The four days fell in February and March 2026, outside the window the Forest Department and the nurseries recommend. The wheat harvest had the labour until then.

What was done
  • Planted 200 plants across 400 sq ft at Primary School, Jabrella, on 14 February 2026
  • Planted 150 across 350 sq ft at Basic Vidyalaya, Bharsaua, on 21 February 2026
  • Planted 500 across 1,000 sq ft at The Good Harvest School on 21 March 2026
  • Planted 175 across 370 sq ft at Pt. Lalita Prasad Ramkisha Mahavidyalaya on 30 March 2026
  • Ran it as a four-person team — Palak holds the fellowship, with Nisha on labour and materials, Roli on sourcing and plantation, Kshama on plant knowledge and outreach
  • Reached about a thousand more people through Instagram and WhatsApp
  • Held back 435 of the 1,460 plants procured for continued planting
Partners
  • Primary School, Jabrella
  • Basic Vidyalaya, Bharsaua
  • The Good Harvest School
  • Pt. Lalita Prasad Ramkisha Mahavidyalaya

The rest of the cohort