India: Urban gardening could help beat heat and pollution

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.