A farm for the school

At APL Global School in Thoraipakkam, the classroom “extends’ into the garden with a gardening initiative having travelled swiftly from the periphery of learning to the centre stage.  In 2017, it sprouted as a club initiative by Maya Ganesh, a multi-hyphenate with regenerative farming as one of her specialisations, and soon put out promising shoots that developed into sturdy branches. The initiative now stands robust as a full-fledged regenerative gardening curriculum that reaches students of every grade in tailored and measured forms.  “We do not have traditional landscaping here,” says Shalini N, architect and garden coordinator at APL. “Instead, we have turned our open spaces into edible landscapes. Every plant is chosen not for beauty, but for its utility and ecological value.”