We found that there is something terrible happening around us in terms of humans getting affected with new diseases – COVID being the worst, plants and crops with new pests, air with extreme pollution, contaminated drinking water, urbanisation etc. The only thing that we found as a solution is to have as many plants around us as possible which can emit enough oxygen for human survival.
We were working as Software Engineers and left our corporate world to find out a solution to the problems around us. We felt that ‘Growing Plants’ is the only way out which actually made us feel beautiful, happy and turned some negative traits in us to being positive. It drastically controlled the stress levels. With limited resources initially, we were finding ways to get out of the corporate setting and find ways to enter into gardening full-time. Starting with social media presence and sharing our growing experience everyday with fellow garden enthusiasts, we started getting enquiries for sharing plants and seeds. With increasing enquiries, we took the big decision of quitting our high paying jobs and entering and building our career in something that we are happy doing and can support the people and the environment.
Now, we realise that this is one of the best decisions we ever made for our own well-being and good health.
Gardening not just makes us feel happy but inculcates a huge level of patience, curiosity to keep learning and unlearning. We sow a seed and wait till the plant bears a fruit but once it fruits, we start to experience the abundance nature has to offer us humans. Nature keeps surprising with its sudden supply of magic in nature and surplus harvest. We felt that this abundance that nature offers once we start cherishing it will never make us feel content. As a gardener, we have become greedy of growing more plants as well as spreading the diversity we have to fellow garden enthusiasts. Gardening keeps us alive and helps us live amidst greens to the fullest. Even during COVID, we were able to survive as we had enough plants and trees at our farm which made us feel fulfilled and catered to our culinary needs.
With more than 10+ years of experience in home gardening and operating plant nurseries, we felt the need to create awareness about growing plants even if one does not own land – We talk about small space gardening ideas, indoor and outdoor plants, growing our own food, no dig garden and critical need to conserve what is endangered and forage for the extinct.
Gardening has changed us as a person very positively. We are now on a mission to promote gardening even at a small scale in your own gardens. For any garden requirements, we are now fulfilling your needs to start your garden even if it is with just one plant.
Just start with that first one plant and you will feel the wonderness of becoming a gardener along with Gardening India!
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