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Tree plantation, aftercare and the green spaces of North India — the work, and the reason for it.

Plantation & aftercare

Trees going into the ground

The part that matters is not the planting day. It is the weeding, watering and guarding that comes after it.

Three women working the soil around a young tree during a plantation drive — A plantation drive in progress

Two women loosening soil with hoes around a newly planted tree — Loosening soil around a young tree

Volunteers digging with a pickaxe and spade beside a sapling — Pit preparation before planting

Two women kneeling to clear weeds around a planted tree — Clearing weeds from the tree basin

Two women smiling while tending a young tree with a whitewashed trunk — Aftercare — the work that keeps trees alive

Two women gathering cut grass from around a planted tree — Mulching and clearing around the base

A group of women volunteers standing together during a plantation drive — A community turning out for a drive

A woman holding a young sapling in a nursery shade house — Saplings ready for distribution

School students smiling together beneath a tree — Har Bachcha, Ek Ped — school programmes

Why we do it

The North India we are planting for

Delhi's winters, Punjab's fields, and the shade that is disappearing from both.

People wearing masks walking through a Delhi park on a hazy winter morning — Delhi in winter — masks under mature trees

A Mughal-era monument in Delhi framed by large trees and lawns — Delhi's historic green spaces

Families in a Delhi park among old trees on a hazy day — What a canopy does for a public space

Sunrise over North Indian wheat fields with trees beside a tubewell — Sunrise over the fields of North India

Mustard flowers in bloom across a field under a clear blue sky — Mustard season in the northern plains

A single mature tree standing at the edge of a ploughed field — One old tree, holding a whole field together

Have photos from one of our drives? If you have volunteered with us and have pictures, we would like to put them here. Send them to pedlagaoindia@gmail.com and we will credit you.

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