This 50-year-old school teacher transformed a garbage dump at the Kerala State Government NGO quarters into a vegetable patch.
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From tapioca, iron-filled red spinach, to the sweetest bananas, this vegetable garden is filled with nutrition and protein. However, it’s hard to believe that this green patch was once just a pile of garbage. Kerala school teacher Jinal Kumar turned a 15-cent waste land, belonging to the State Government’s NGO living quarters, into a mini vegetable garden in Kannur district all by himself. The physical education teacher still recalls how he transformed the land once filled with waste and building debris into a beautiful garden.
Speaking to The Better India (TBI), Jinal says, “I started my journey in cultivation when I was working at Government Town Higher Secondary School. I received some seeds from a particular project and I began to grow them at the school. In the meantime, I also started cleaning the garbage dumped at the quarters by…