There's been an uptick in urban gardening in New Delhi and it's providing growers with multiple health and environmental benefits.
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00:00We're in Delhi, in the peak of summer, 50 degrees, we've built this urban ecosystem
00:15which is vegetables, which is fruits like pomegranates, like chikus, like papaya, like
00:24grapefruit.
00:25If you have plants in your balcony or on your terrace, your terrace is covered with greenery
00:46which means it's not letting harsh sunlight directly come inside your homes, it will just
00:53give you a natural cooling effect.
01:08I realised that children born during COVID, they don't have good air to breathe, they
01:14have bad food, full of chemicals, pesticides and what does the future hold for them was
01:21a question in my mind.
01:23Then I decided, okay fine, I'm growing my own food that is dedicated to my daughter,
01:27she can have anything and everything from the terrace, come and pick fruits from here,
01:32have it, which are naturally grown from the household compost.
01:38It can be grown in limited space using techniques like square foot gardening, multi-layer gardening,
01:53you grow all these essentials in your balcony, start with that and experience the joy of
02:01harvesting let's say that one bunch of spinach and eating it fresh.