Environment & Plantation

Plantation drives across the city — and the watering that comes after, which is the part that actually matters.

Planting a sapling takes an afternoon. Keeping it alive takes three years. The Trust’s plantation work is built around the second part.

Volunteers plant during the monsoon, when a young tree has the best chance, and then return to water and protect what was planted. Schools and local residents are invited to take part, because a tree someone in the lane feels responsible for is a tree that survives.

It is a small contribution to a large problem. It is also the kind of work that shows its result twenty years later, which is reason enough to begin now.