All India Kitchen Garden Association presents ‘Gardening for Environment' annual vegetables, fruits & flower festival at Gulmohar Park Club, C-40, Gulmohar Park > 11am-6pm on 28th February & 1st March 2015

Time : 11:00 am - 6:00 pm Add to Calendar 28-02-2015 11:00:00 01-03-2015 18:00:00 68 All India Kitchen Garden Association presents ‘Gardening for Environment' annual vegetables, fruits & flower festival Event Page : http://goo.gl/ZA03cI Gulmohar Park Club, C-40, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi - 110049 DD/MM/YYYY

Entry : Free

Venue : Gulmohar Park Club, C-40, Gulmohar Park, New Delhi - 110049
Venue Info : www.gulmoharclub.com | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Green Park(Yellow Line)'

Event Description : All India Kitchen Garden Association presents annual vegetables, fruits and flower festival with the theme ‘Gardening for Environment ’.

“This year  AIKGA has shifted  the focus and theme  of the show on Eco-friendly gardening as this trend is becoming popular world wide  for growing vegetables ,fruits and fish round the year." said Ms Bella Gupta, Secretary, All India Kitchen Garden Association (AIKGA) .

 “Grass lawns in houses and offices often require chemicals and frequent maintenance. The concept of eco-friendly gardening which including replacing the grass lawn  with native wildflowers, bushes, and trees provides the food, shelter, and cover that help to maintain healthy, natural eco-systems and reduces one’s time, cost  and labor working on the lawn” said Mrs Gupta.

“ Eco-gardening includes concept of encouraging growth of birds and bee friendly plants, use of home grown compost and used tea fertilizers, use of discarded plastic bottles and containers, rain water harvesting,  use of  Aquaponics (growing plants along with fish) .  Besides eco gardening, the festival will also focus on roof top  farming ,which helps provide  the decorative benefit, food, temperature control, hydrological benefits, architectural enhancement,  recreational opportunities, and in large scale it may even have ecological benefits. The practice of cultivating food on the rooftop of buildings is becoming popular world wide” said Mrs Gupta .

The other highlights of the spring festival will be painting competition, session on eco gardening, sale of garden related items, farm fresh vegetables, seeds and plants for summers. Various chapters of the association in Delhi and National Capital Region will be presenting  whole range of nutrition food and related recipes to meet the needs of changing lifestyle.

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