India Mumbai Environment WEB
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- India Mumbai Environment WEB
- March 13, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English (PLAYBOOK SLUG: India Mumbai Environment HEADLINE: As Mumbai’s Green Spaces Disappear, City Activists Grow Food Forests TEASER: Food forests are flourishing in institutions like schools and orphanages on land that was not being used PUBLISHED AT: Sunday, 03/13/2022 at BYLINE: Anjana Pasricha CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Mumbai, India VIDEOGRAPHER: P. Pallavi PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: pcd VIDEO SOURCE: VOA original PLATFORMS: WEB _x_ TV _x_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:01 VID APPROVED BY: SV TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is an OCN with this)) ((INTRO)) [[In an effort to alleviate the environmental degradation in Mumbai caused by urbanization, a nonprofit group is spearheading a project to grow "food forests" in the city. These forests consist of hundreds of trees and edible plants grown on small strips of land. From Mumbai, Anjana Pasricha has a report.]] ((VIDEO: Patch of land with dry leaves, Remedios digging, Remedios talking to volunteers, red chili plant, buildings in Mumbai)) ((NARRATOR)) In a patch of land on the grounds of a school in Mumbai, this environmental activist plants a sapling in a “food forest” that stands amid tall concrete buildings. ((George Remedios, founder, The Turning Tide)) “This time I have brought a few fruit tree saplings, a few flowering tree saplings to bring in pollinators, as well as some pepper saplings, chilli pepper sapling which will add to the food that’s grown over here.” ((VIDEO: Trees and shrubs, plants in the food forest, Remedios wearing The Turning Tide T-Shirt)) ((NARRATOR)) In this miniature replication of a forest, shorter fruiting trees and other edible plants are being grown in different layers under tall trees. It is one of 12 such spaces grown in and around the city by volunteer group, The Turning Tide. ((VIDEO: Remedios carrying plants, digging soil, buildings in Mumbai, strip of school land, food forest trees and plants)) ((NARRATOR)) After spending years planting trees along roadsides to compensate for Mumbai’s disappearing green spaces, Remedios hit upon the idea of using unused strips of land in places like schools and orphanages to grow “food forests.” ((George Remedios, founder, The Turning Tide)) “We are fed up of the environmental condition and the rampant construction that you see around with all the cement. I’ve had friends of mine who’ve lost parents to lung cancer. My own mom had asthma and she struggled with it, with bad air quality. I knew that trees are something that not only give us oxygen, but they do a lot more than that. They shade, which protects us from the heat, as well as it pulls in all the particulate matter that’s around us, they act like buffers." ((VIDEO: School ground, man carrying leaves and throwing them, dry leaves, Remedios showing the soil)) ((NARRATOR)) It was not easy. The first step was to regenerate the degraded soil to create a forest bed. Dry leaves and twigs that usually end up in landfills came in handy. ((VIDEO: Remedios looking at fruit tree, papaya fruit, flowers on fruit trees, breaking dry leaves)) In the last three years, trees like papaya have flourished. The food forest also saves costs in carting away garden waste. ((VIDEO: Bagri bringing in lemongrass sapling, lemongrass being planted, food forest shot of trees and plants)) Volunteers and residents pitch in to nurture the forest in different ways – Jasmine Bagri brings a lemongrass seedling to plant. The food forest inspires her. ((Jasmine Bagri, Mumbai Resident)) “I want to stay here. I feel like working, I actually want to dig in. I can see so many small plants, I am thinking if I can pick them up and I can plant them somewhere." ((VIDEO: Almeida Digging with Remedios, digging, building structure in Mumbai)) ((NARRATOR)) As he gets his hands dirty on a weekend, Floyd Almeida, re-establishes the connection with nature that he lost when a tall building replaced his low-lying childhood home. ((Floyd Almeida, Volunteer, The Turning Tide)) “It’s so beautiful, because you have birds, you’ve bees. You come in the morning to work here and it Is like music when the birds whistle and you can hear the sound of the birds so there is music while you work.” ((Jasmine Bagri)) "These are heaven, these are something which we should cherish, these are places we should grow have and more.” ((VIDEO: Remedios digging, planting lemongrass, looking at plant, reading a book)) ((NARRATOR)) More such food forests are planned. But for the time being, it is time for Remedios, who became an environmental crusader after quitting his job, to unwind after a morning’s labor. ((Anjana Pasricha for VOA News, Mumbai))
- Transcript/Script (PLAYBOOK SLUG: India Mumbai Environment HEADLINE: As Mumbai’s Green Spaces Disappear, City Activists Grow Food Forests TEASER: Food forests are flourishing in institutions like schools and orphanages on land that was not being used PUBLISHED AT: Sunday, 03/13/2022 at BYLINE: Anjana Pasricha CONTRIBUTOR: DATELINE: Mumbai, India VIDEOGRAPHER: P. Pallavi PRODUCER: SCRIPT EDITORS: pcd VIDEO SOURCE: VOA original PLATFORMS: WEB _x_ TV _x_ RADIO __ TRT: 3:01 VID APPROVED BY: SV TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES: There is an OCN with this)) ((INTRO)) [[In an effort to alleviate the environmental degradation in Mumbai caused by urbanization, a nonprofit group is spearheading a project to grow "food forests" in the city. These forests consist of hundreds of trees and edible plants grown on small strips of land. From Mumbai, Anjana Pasricha has a report.]] ((VIDEO: Patch of land with dry leaves, Remedios digging, Remedios talking to volunteers, red chili plant, buildings in Mumbai)) ((NARRATOR)) In a patch of land on the grounds of a school in Mumbai, this environmental activist plants a sapling in a “food forest” that stands amid tall concrete buildings. ((George Remedios, founder, The Turning Tide)) “This time I have brought a few fruit tree saplings, a few flowering tree saplings to bring in pollinators, as well as some pepper saplings, chilli pepper sapling which will add to the food that’s grown over here.” ((VIDEO: Trees and shrubs, plants in the food forest, Remedios wearing The Turning Tide T-Shirt)) ((NARRATOR)) In this miniature replication of a forest, shorter fruiting trees and other edible plants are being grown in different layers under tall trees. It is one of 12 such spaces grown in and around the city by volunteer group, The Turning Tide. ((VIDEO: Remedios carrying plants, digging soil, buildings in Mumbai, strip of school land, food forest trees and plants)) ((NARRATOR)) After spending years planting trees along roadsides to compensate for Mumbai’s disappearing green spaces, Remedios hit upon the idea of using unused strips of land in places like schools and orphanages to grow “food forests.” ((George Remedios, founder, The Turning Tide)) “We are fed up of the environmental condition and the rampant construction that you see around with all the cement. I’ve had friends of mine who’ve lost parents to lung cancer. My own mom had asthma and she struggled with it, with bad air quality. I knew that trees are something that not only give us oxygen, but they do a lot more than that. They shade, which protects us from the heat, as well as it pulls in all the particulate matter that’s around us, they act like buffers." ((VIDEO: School ground, man carrying leaves and throwing them, dry leaves, Remedios showing the soil)) ((NARRATOR)) It was not easy. The first step was to regenerate the degraded soil to create a forest bed. Dry leaves and twigs that usually end up in landfills came in handy. ((VIDEO: Remedios looking at fruit tree, papaya fruit, flowers on fruit trees, breaking dry leaves)) In the last three years, trees like papaya have flourished. The food forest also saves costs in carting away garden waste. ((VIDEO: Bagri bringing in lemongrass sapling, lemongrass being planted, food forest shot of trees and plants)) Volunteers and residents pitch in to nurture the forest in different ways – Jasmine Bagri brings a lemongrass seedling to plant. The food forest inspires her. ((Jasmine Bagri, Mumbai Resident)) “I want to stay here. I feel like working, I actually want to dig in. I can see so many small plants, I am thinking if I can pick them up and I can plant them somewhere." ((VIDEO: Almeida Digging with Remedios, digging, building structure in Mumbai)) ((NARRATOR)) As he gets his hands dirty on a weekend, Floyd Almeida, re-establishes the connection with nature that he lost when a tall building replaced his low-lying childhood home. ((Floyd Almeida, Volunteer, The Turning Tide)) “It’s so beautiful, because you have birds, you’ve bees. You come in the morning to work here and it Is like music when the birds whistle and you can hear the sound of the birds so there is music while you work.” ((Jasmine Bagri)) "These are heaven, these are something which we should cherish, these are places we should grow have and more.” ((VIDEO: Remedios digging, planting lemongrass, looking at plant, reading a book)) ((NARRATOR)) More such food forests are planned. But for the time being, it is time for Remedios, who became an environmental crusader after quitting his job, to unwind after a morning’s labor. ((Anjana Pasricha for VOA News, Mumbai))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date March 13, 2022 11:22 EDT
- Byline Anjana Pasricha
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America