Activities, Articles, Environmental, INTERNATIONAL - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 19:21 - 0 Comments

GrowIn’ Together - AYUDH inspires youth via webcast to grow veggies in their homes

On the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (18th of April) AYUDH groups around the world connected via a webcast on the internet to plant seeds together. After Amma has blessed and inaugurated the GrowIn’ project on her last fall tour in EU and USA, AYUDH community gardens have sprung up in USA, Germany, France, India and Australia. As a second phase of the project AYUDH wants to inspire individual youth to grow their own veggies at home, in whatever space they have available.

Planting a few seeds is simple – yet often one lacks the enthusiasm or basic knowhow on how to do it. Therefore, this initiative was launched to create a feeling of togetherness amongst the “green-youth” and provide them with professional guidance in setting up a small garden in their homes – on a balcony or window shelf.

The variety of veggies planted by the youth was as wide as the range of countries of the online-participants: German, French, Austrian, Irish, Belgian and Kenyan youth took part in the webcast. Also the Australian youth planted seeds on that day, but due to the time-difference they were unable to join the live-action. Every participant had prepared little country-flags, which were placed into the freshly planted pots, so that it can be seen on the photos when shared online where each pot is from. In order to document the progress of the plants each group will take photos of their plants in regular intervals and upload them online. Continue…