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Palak Bajpai
Miyawaki Plantation Project
Jabrella, Bharsaua and two further campuses · Uttar Pradesh · February and March
Four dense little forests inside school and college gates: 1,025 plants across 2,120 square feet, put in on four days. Another 435 saplings are still held back for the next site.
1,025
Plants in the ground
four planting days, February and March
2,120 sq ft
Total area planted
four planting days, February and March
4
Green spaces created
February and March
6,000
People reached
February and March
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, outside the window the Forest Department and the nurseries recommend. The wheat harvest had the labour until then.
- Planted 200 plants across 400 sq ft at Primary School, Jabrella
- Planted 150 across 350 sq ft at Basic Vidyalaya, Bharsaua
- Planted 500 across 1,000 sq ft at The Good Harvest School
- Planted 175 across 370 sq ft at Pt. Lalita Prasad Ramkisha Mahavidyalaya
- Ran it as a four-person team — Palak leading, 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
- Primary School, Jabrella
- Basic Vidyalaya, Bharsaua
- The Good Harvest School
- Pt. Lalita Prasad Ramkisha Mahavidyalaya
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