flowers

Imagine wearing a piece of your most cherished memory! Bhuvaneshwari M, an engineer-turned-designer, is turning wedding flowers into beautiful, sustainable fashion through eco-printing. Her brand, ‘House of Murah’, is weaving nostalgia into every fabric.

Poonam Arora moved from Delhi to Dehradun and started gardening full-time. With over 300 varieties of plants in her home garden, she posts her learnings on her YouTube channel too.

Kusini Jyothi Priyanka, a resident of Bhadrachalam, Telangana is growing 20 varieties of seasonal flowers, and a wide variety of vegetables in 700 pots on her 600 sq ft terrace.

What started with just 4-5 plants, has now bloomed into a garden with hundreds of plants that provides the family with organic food, pure air and a cool temperature even in the rising heat of Delhi.

Mohanta says that he also often goes to schools to talk to the students about reusing plastic bottles. He says, “I tell them that plastic takes forever to decompose and dumping it is of no use, so we should reuse them.”

Once an arid rock-strewn patch, the land now teems with lush green creepers, shrubs and trees - all thanks to a 53-year-old man who believed that forests could grow in cities too!

Yash Bhatt and Arjun Thakkar, from the city-based Silver Oak Engineering College, have developed a machine that can process flowers and leaves into organic manure in 15 days.

Flowers make for popular presents, and while they pop out the colours of your room and make it smell as fresh as a meadow, the glamour only lasts for a couple of days, before you have to throw them away.

In March 2016, Vipin completed his training to become a full-time farmer. He had quit his job as a programmer.

“Since these flowers are available in abundance during all seasons and at all places, regardless of the geography, we decided to experiment with them."