Mumbai Goes Green Offers Complete solutions for urban organic kitchen gardens City farming and composting

at your location
" it is our work with living soil that provides sustainable alternatives to the triple crises of climate, energy, and food. No matter how many songs on your iPod, cars in your garage, or books on your shelf, it is plants ability to capture solar energy that is at the root of it all. Without fertile soil, what is life? VANDANA SHIVA, 2008"

Completing the cycle

In nature, nothing is wasted. Nature works in cycles where everything is reused. We breathe the same air, drink the same water, and grow food in the same soil that was used thousands of years ago. When we compost our kitchen and garden waste and grow our own food with it, we follow Mother Nature. We complete the cycle what comes out of the kitchen as waste goes back to the kitchen as food, as nature has planned it.
Mumbai Goes Green offers solutions for completing this cycle at your location.

Table of Contents
Urban Farming: p1 Leaf Composting: p3 Urban Farming Workshops: p2 More about Urban Organic Gardens: p4 Composting of kitchen waste: p3 MGG customer kitchen gardens in pictures: p4-6

URBAN FARMING

Mumbai Goes Green (MGG) provides everything you need to set up an urban organic kitchen garden in Mumbai: containers, soil, compost, seeds, tools, setup and training. All available at your doorstep! So you can grow seasonal organic vegetables and herbs in the space you have - window grills, balconies, terraces, compounds and garden areas, wherever three or more hours of direct sunlight is available. In urban areas practically anyone can manage a few square feet to grow simple leafy vegetables and herbs like spinach, coriander and mint in window grills and balconies. Those fortunate to have private terraces or access to common building areas like lawns, compounds or terraces can grow practically all the seasons vegetables they need.

Container based gardening

In Mumbai, very few have access to lawn areas for growing vegetables, so container based gardening is almost forced upon us. MGG provides a range of containers in various shapes (rectangular, circular), sizes (from 4 inches to 4 feet length), materials (clay, cane and wood) to suit location, convenience, economy and aesthetics. 1

For beginners
The materials required for city farming are available from various sources scattered over the city. Many beginners dont even know the types of products or materials required. MGG is a one-stop source that makes them available to you at your doorstep. So you dont have to search and run around to get them in place. We also help with set up and training to remove beginners block and get you started. Once you overcome the initial barriers, you will get the confidence to experiment, expand, innovate and optimise on your own.

Urban farming techniques

Urban dwellers have shortage of space and time. We guide you in techniques (like square foot gardening) that use less space, time, water, seeds, effort and money.

Survey and visits

We can visit your location, check out the space and sunlight available, and suggest urban farming solutions suitable to your constraints and needs.

Its low cost after its started

Vegetables grow quickly and can be harvested in one to three months from sowing. So you can reuse the containers four times every year to grow the seasonal vegetables you want. Once your organic garden is set up, you will regularly need only compost and seeds to continue to grow vegetables.

Now everyone can be a city farmer!

Get the benefits of growing your own food. Eat fresh healthy food free of chemicals and pesticides. Connect to Nature, to yourself and to others. Develop a lifelong skill, and pass it on to friends and family. City farming can be a hobby, recreation, exercise and stress-buster. It can be especially good for children, a real activity compared to the virtual ones like using cell-phones, Internet and television.

URBAN FARMING WORKSHOPS

MGG provides hands-on training in urban organic farming techniques for various groups at their own location - building societies, schools, colleges, academic campuses, companies, clubs and other organizations

COMPOSTING OF KITCHEN WASTE

Compost is the basic ingredient required in organic farming. It is a fertilizer and soil conditioner that makes plants thrive. It is obtained from the biological degradation of plant material by organisms like microbes and earthworms.

Composting solutions

MGG can either supply you with compost generated from kitchen waste or help you get compost from your own kitchen waste. MGG provides a range of Daily Dump products and services for making compost out of kitchen waste. The solutions are from single apartments to entire building complexes, canteens and hotels. This compost can be used in existing green areas or to grow organic food at negligible cost. For more information on Daily Dump visit www.dailydump.org.

Terracotta pots
for composting at home Independent pots placed Kambha to save horizontally space

Manthan drum tumblers

for high volume and community solutions 100 litres 300 litres

MGG can provide electro-mechanical solutions for situations where huge volumes of waste are generated and very less space is available for composting (e.g. five star hotels, residential high rises).

LEAF COMPOSTING
MGG provides practical and attractive Daily Dump containers for storage and composting of fallen leaves (and plant trimmings). Leaves are a precious resource and can be made into high quality compost. Now there is no need to burn leaves or send them to landfill. Daily Dump leaf composters can be installed in open areas close to the places where leaves are available, making it easy to gather and store the leaves. You can use the containers either for storage or composting of garden litter. We provide natural activators and accelerators to speed up the leaf composting process.

MORE ABOUT URBAN ORGANIC GARDENS

The plant types
The plant types would be those that may be harvested within 1-4 months of sowing. They are not trees and generally grow to a low height. They will be grown according to the season suitable for them.
Plant group Leaf vegetables Root vegetables (salads) Other underground plants Vines Beans Gourds Cabbage / lettuce family Bush / shrub plants Grains Herbs Fruit (short time harvest types) Total Types of plants Palak (Spinach), Methi (Fenugreek), Kothmir (Coriander), Lal Math (Amaranth) Carrot, Beet, Radish, Turnip, knol khol (kohlrabi) Onion, garlic, potato, groundnut, haldi (turmeric), ginger Tomato, Cherry tomato, Cucumber, Karela (bitter gourd), Various types of beans - gavar (cluster beans), chowli (kidney beans), etc. Various types of gourds such as doodhi (bottle gourd), turai (ridge gourd), etc. Cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce (various types) Chilly, capsicum, peas, zucchini, broccoli, brinjal, bhindi (lady finger) Corn (and maybe a few wheat and rice plants) Mint, Basil, Parsley, Ajwain, Lemon grass Muskmelon, water melon Approx. no. of types 4 5 6 5 3 3 4 6 2 5 3-4 About 45

IN PICTURES
Given below are pictures from organic vegetable gardens set up by Mumbai Goes Green using compost from kitchen waste, to give an idea of the plants and locations supported by Mumbai Goes Green.

Plant types

Palak (Spinach)

Kothmir (Coriander)

Methi (Fenugreek)

Math (Amaranth)

White radish

Red radish

Turnip

Beetroot

Lettuce

Cabbage

Beans

Corn

Tomato

Karela (bitter gourd)

Capsicum

Bhindi (Lady finger)

Basil Even flowers thrive with the compost!

Ajwain

Lemon Grass

Location types
MGG sets up organic kitchen gardens at residential, academic and commercial locations in the space you have!

Apartment building terrace

Apartment balcony

Bungalow terrace

Apartment window grill

Office terrace

School compound

Academic campus (IIT Bombay)

HARVESTING THE PRODUCE

There is a special joy in growing and harvesting your own food!

Reduce your carbon footprint

Growing vegetables at home reduces the energy required to bring them from faraway places. Composting allows waste to be recycled and reduces material to be transported and dumped in landfills.

Contact Us
Contact Mumbai Goes Green for a wide range of organic solutions at your doorstep in Mumbai - grow organic vegetables and herbs and also generate compost from kitchen and garden waste. Tel: Web: Email: Address: Anil (+91-99308-00228) or Bharat (+91-98924-65173) www.mumbaigoesgreen.com mumbaigoesgreen@gmail.com Plot 39/44, Midco Compound, Scheme 6, Road 2, Sion East, Mumbai 400022. Landmarks off Sion Circle, near Punjabi Ghasitaram Halwai.