Exotic Vegetables Grow in Indian Wastelands
Indian women in and around the city of New Delhi have been turning abandoned corners, neglected backyards and even garbage dumps near their homes into breathtaking gardens where they are growing exotic vegetables, flowers, fruits and medicinal shrubs. They are doing all of this on their own, without grant or sanction from local authorities, and this has caused some run-ins with the law.
But what keeps these green workers going is the satisfaction of sprucing up their neighborhoods. One example is 75 year old Sudershan Khanna, who lives in an apartment complex that used to be surrounded by wastelands that were a blot on the landscape and an unofficial garbage dump. She got a team together and even hired trucks in order to clear the garbage off the land and level it in order to plant a garden that is now home to over 500 plants.