How to plant street trees in Chennai
Madras Ramblings reports on a neighborhood tree planting initiative where the residents managed to have each sapling ‘sponsored’ by a kid — a model worth emulating elsewhere, I think.
It has been raining heavily ever since, and we hope this has given a good start to these saplings. We also uncovered other pooarasam saplings among the weeds, obviously from some previous planting efforts. Let’s hope these saplings grow, along with our kids, into lovely tall, shady trees!
Read the rest. (Thanks to Arati for the link.)
Posted on December 3, 2011, in Tree planting, Urban trees and tagged India. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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