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An Organic Edible Garden at the Cancer Institute, Chennai.
- 1. Adyar Cancer Institute, Chennai THE “URBAN” IN PERMACULTURE
- 2. Vision A natural, sustainable and edible community garden that is created by volunteers and the CI Community in the spirit of voluntary engagement and the joy of giving. An environment which is happy, peaceful, safe for the children and sustainable for the environment An edible community space, where people contribute and share in the garden’s “fruits”.
- 3. What we started with
- 5. October 2013
- 8. Banana Patch (Dec 2013)
- 9. Front beds May 2013 Oct 2013
- 10. Outcomes
- 11. “Waste” Biomass from Local Resources – the building blocks of this garden
- 12. Other “Waste”: Everything is a resource
- 13. Rain water harvesting using debris
- 14. Sheet Mulching: to control weeds
- 15. Composting: From the CI kitchen May 2013 July 2013
- 18. Harvest
- 19. December 2013 in the garden
- 20. We’ve learnt that: You can do a lot with very little. The journey is as important as the destination
- 21. We invite you to visit the garden and work with us. Volunteers from reStore Gardens are in the CI Garden on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 – 12. For more information: info@restoregardens.org
Editor's Notes
- We were invited by the Cancer Institute to set up a natural garden at the Pediatric Ward. After many meetings with doctors, gardeneers, others who work within the Cancer Institute, we developed a plan. It was an exercise in mapping and working with various stakeholders.
- When we started work, the ground was hard, rocky and unworkable. We had to create new soil. We created raised beds, with whatever material we found around us. Trunks from a cut down coconut tree formed the walls of our first bed. Stones left over from construction projects line the other beds. All the soil you see here has been created on-site. CI has about 20 horned visitors – beautiful spotted deer. We wanted to ensure the deer still delighted the children, but didn’t eat up all the plants. So we fenced the garden.
- We started with a few beds. Early planting got eatn by deer. As the soil was created, we started building pandals with salvaged bamboo.
- Many beds, each made with different materials, all using wasted biomass which I will describe in a few seconds. But this is a view of the garden as it is today. Much of what is growing came from compost. It is ony that we have started intentional planting.
- The incredible thing is so far, we have been harvesting whatever grows out of the compost. It is only now that the intentional planting has begun. Also shows our youngest and oldest volunteer. Nidhi is 4 and is a regular at the garden. Jaya is 75 and comes in once a week ot help harvest and manage volunteers.