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बगीचे प्लॉट से पहले गलियाँ बदलते हैं। गृहवाटिका पड़ोसियों को एक-दूसरे तक पहुँचाती है, बीज साझा कराती है, और उस ज़मीन पर कुछ शुरू कराती है जो कोई इस्तेमाल नहीं कर रहा था।
Our mission says local gardeners can contribute knowledge, so this page is a set of doors rather than a description. A plant record improves the moment somebody who grows the plant in Bundelkhand tells us what it is called there and when it goes in the ground; a correction from a gardener in Kollam is worth more than a paragraph we wrote in Delhi.
What happens to what you send. A person reads it. Corrections go to a botanist. Local knowledge is recorded as belonging to a place and a community, and cited. Stories are published in the Knowledge Centre under your name. Nothing is used anonymously without your say, and nothing is sold.
Garden of the monthLata Ladla — Terrace garden, Dwarka Sector-9, New Delhi
Ten years on one terrace, from four pots to forty varieties. It feeds three households, hosts a Saturday seed table for the block, and has a waiting list of neighbours who want a bed of their own.
3Households fed
10 yrsOn this terrace
40+Varieties grown
Six ways to contribute
Share a plant storyYou grew something, or you remember someone who did. Published in the Knowledge Centre, in your name.→Share local knowledgeA regional name, a household use, a sowing habit particular to your district. Named to its place, credited to you.→Submit a plant correctionA wrong botanical name, a sowing month that does not work where you live. The most valuable thing you can send.→Start a community gardenA vacant strip, four neighbours and a water source. We send a starter plan, seed for your region and a sign for the gate.→Become a Grihvatika volunteerHindi translation, plant photography, school sessions, record checking. A few hours a month is genuinely useful.→Become a knowledge contributorFor botanists, horticulturists, practitioners and field researchers: review records in your area and be named on them.→
And locally, without asking anyone
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Swap seedSave seed from your best plant and trade it over a wall — varieties already adapted to your street, free and better than a packet.🧑🏫
Run a sessionTeach one Saturday workshop. We supply the material and the handouts; you supply the terrace and the tea.
Where the gardens are
34Delhi NCRSeed table monthly
21LucknowGarden of the month
18PuneTerrace network
16BengaluruTwo nurseries partnered
12KolkataSchool gardens led
9AhmedabadRooftop cluster
8DehradunHill-season trials
7AgraRiverbank plantings
6KochiMonsoon growers
Starting one takes four steps
- 1Find the groundA colony park corner, a school boundary, an unused service lane. Twenty square metres is plenty.
- 2Find four peopleFewer and it stalls the first time somebody travels. Four is the smallest number that survives a holiday.
- 3Agree on waterA tap, a tank, or four households carrying cans on a rota. Settle this before you sow anything.
- 4Register with usWe send a starter plan, seed matched to your region, and a printed sign for the gate.
There may already be a garden two streets away.
Register a new plot or find the nearest one — the map is updated every month, and joining an existing garden is the fastest way to start.
