Journalism of Courage
The Gardeners club is all about gettingtogether and working on terrace farming and organic gardens
Retired Physics teacher Anuradha Ghanu moved into her Karve Nagar home 25 years ago. From that day till today,no garbage has left her house for some communal dump. The consummate garden freak built a composting pit to nurture her garden and has kept at it with uncommon religiosity. It’s a fun activity,and now with my teaching days behind me,I have more time to commit, says Ghanu. This personal pursuit took on organisational facets when Ghanu helped co-found the Gardeners Club in the city. The membership criterion is simple – all associates should be practitioners of waste composting in their homes. We started 14 years back with a basic idea,and today mingle with a membership of over 50. It’s good fun.
The group has visited the site of agro-tourism at Matheran and the poly house at Magarpatta. Guest lecturers,micro-biologists,et al are invited regularly for the upkeep of the general knowledge of the group. This know-how imparting group is sometimes joined by seasoned members who help disseminate more wisdom on specified topics. On the 23 rd of this month we will be heading towards Muniseva Ashram in Baroda for two-three days. They have built an impressive green locale there.
So if eco-friendly fertiliser gets your curiosity kicking,this is the group to belong to. All it would cost you is three hundred rupees a year and a blocking of the first and third Fridays of every month. From then on,it’s just seeds,saplings and healthy veggies that will dominate your dreams.
