Miyawaki Mini Forests

Forest Creation Tutorials https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDw6OmGaV5rnOCATIho19IcvpF2eqsG_6 playlist with 12 videos by Sharma of https://www.afforestt.com/ who learnt this technique when working for Toyota, in Japan. Who got the idea from a study by a German ... and in the last 10 years they have created and sustained forests in India, Netherlands, Singapore and the USA. All natural. Using local materials and native trees

If you have 400 square feet or more land, consider leaving a margin of 10 feet around and then growing a thick natural mini forest, all natural. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfA2namCs7Y We did one in muy flats. Very proud after 1.5 years see images at https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNNT15rSFTjGa_SGT3EbIvxEMly2f_XxfZb...

If you have more land, this might be expensive, but you can mix and match, atleast make one area in the center to be a thich natural Miyawaki and around that can plant fewer trees, where you don't have to dig so deep and do not need watering everyday for the first 3 years (and deweeding every 2 months).

• Can get detailed instructions from https://www.afforestt.com/methodology They even did a one in the Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDSlft037gk (https://www.ivn.nl/tinyforest/nieuws/eerste-bedrijf-plant-tiny-forest-op... using google translate; they have many now, even have a pin code lottery, and planted 10k saplings all over Netherlands)

• Handy calculator for margin and grow area https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GMBH2crEH8qyM5v1btEnshe_yT4xwX3e... Photo is of the one in my building. My idea, 2018 September. Some of them have grown well now!

•Idea is to go deep, add manure, compost, cocopeat, dry corn waste or something else to make soil loose, then put native trees - 60 cm of each other, a shrub, then a 1-2 that will grow 12-25 feet and 1 that grows taller so they take up seperate areas of the sun light. Like apartments

• Don't add factory made/ artificial fertilizers or any chemicals. Dig atleast 3 feet deep, added bio mass (sugar cane after juice removed and dries or dry husk/ corn waste, coconut shell, broken to bits ... cocopeat, good to hold water; cow manure, compost, fallen leaves. Make a mound so extra water runs off plus its super natural fertile. Then put saplings. We removed some non native species that the builder had put (4 palms and another tree that is not native to here), then planted 115 saplings.

• List of native trees for most of Southern and mid India https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTif34EYrrb1cfA0biZNjVG4... (or as a google sheet that you can dowload or copy https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1panIu3qwb7LJYIHVsFfnVufqvtSqjRXV... ) for other areas, the world over get in touch with the folks at https://afforestt.com/

• Five saplings did not make it. Might be due to the quality of saplings and initially had added 5 Singapore cheery trees which are not native to India, they grew very fast, blocking light to others. Also we did not have enough (dried) sugarcane waste (something to make the soil loose, can use husk too). anyway enough have lived, see the pictures, can see the transformation. We water 6 times a week unless it rains, for the first 3 years.

• Add mulch (dry leaves). So yes a lot of activity but 100% natural. no medicines, but we do mix in neem and other saplings that are medicinal and help each other

Costs in INR Rupees https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQR9wXLTw4h1-XUngq89Ekaf...

Did not add sugar cane waste. Did add old leaves in soil (cut from Koramangla leaf cutter machine). 700 kgs each manure, cocopeat, compost was added. 5 kg neem extract, white powder you had mentioned Ca co3, 500 gm? Mixed up saplings not in strict ratio. Also age of some were younger. Best to take all saplings same age. Added 5 Singapore cherries by mistake, which later removed but after 10 months. Due to all the mistakes 5 saplings died, 7 more not grown much. But we are very happy with the ones that did grow ... See https://photos.app.goo.gl/14RMPLL5wdrxxwRx8 Can download. Will take better ones So dont call it a Miyawaki. But Tiny 650 sft ~ 95 trees based on Afforest-Miyawaki method.