Composting, herbal products and gardening skills: themes at Enviro Day meet at this R. A. Puram zone

The R K Nagar community in R A Puram celebrated Environment Day with a string of events held at the local park zone on Sunday, June 4.

A group of volunteers organised the following sessions for the children: on composting, introduction to herbal plants and Panchakavyam preparation. This ended with a quiz .

Gayatri from Vriksha Industries, a resident of R K Nagar and an active gardening enthusiast took the lead in talking about herbal plants and making good garden soil.

Local ward councillor Geetha M. spent some time at this event and interacted.

Budding naturalist Hrishnu Arvind from Madras Naturalists Society spoke on the trees and local environment of Chennai.

  • Inputs for this report came from R K Nagarra member Balasubramaniam