Mumbai, India – gardener creates large terrace garden

Before and after on Vipul’s terrace.

The beginning of a kitchen terrace garden

By Anu Shankar
Urban Leaves
July 10, 2011

Excerpt:

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Kitchen Gardens? Chances are, you would conjure up an image of an independent house surrounded by a patch of land, a section of which is filled with veggies. At least, that’s how it was for me. I remembered one of my uncle’s houses, where we had a bit of land behind, where my grandfather enthusiastically planted carrots and cabbages. It was terribly exciting for a city girl like me who had never seen vegetables being grown before, and I spent almost every minute of my holiday peering at the plants and seeing if they had grown yet!

I see the same reaction in Samhith every time we visit the Urban Leaves terrace farm at MNP. Yet, the idea of having a kitchen garden in a concrete jungle like Mumbai still seemed a distant dream. While we started our own little one in small plastic containers on our window sills, I wondered how I could possibly make it larger in the small space that we had. However, all it took was a visit to Vipul Sanghavi’s house in Sion to see that where there is a will, there is a way.

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