Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
شبهيندو شارما: كيف تزرع غابة في فنائك الخلفي
Shubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests. Full bio
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and acres of area,
is just two years old.
لا يتجاوز عمرها السنتين.
of my own house.
of these forests professionally.
زراعة احترافية.
هذه الغابات.
where animals live together.
تعيش الحيوانات معاً.
of our urban existence.
من وجودنا الحضري.
that you just can't walk into it.
يصعب عليك السير فيه.
how big or small they are.
we live in today was forest.
كان عبارة عن غابات.
on those forests,
to nature as well,
other species on the planet.
our natural habitat.
these forests professionally --
هذه الغابات زراعة احترافية
natural resources into products.
إلى منتجات.
out of a rubber tree,
عن طريق التقطير،
become a natural resource again.
موارد طبيعية مجدداً.
into an irreversible state.
works in a totally opposite way.
بطريقة مختلفة تماماً.
by bringing elements together,
جمع العناصر بعضها ببعض،
become a natural resource again.
موارد طبيعية مجدداً.
in the backyard of my own house.
I worked with nature,
فيها مع الطبيعة،
in 25 cities across the world.
حول العالم.
needed to make a forest
these elements together
مع بعضها البعض
it becomes compact --
فهي تصبح متضامة
available around,
متوفرة في الجوار،
the capacity to hold water,
الكتلة الحيوية
like peat or bigas,
مثل الخث والبيغاس،
and it stays moist.
sunlight and nutrition.
والتغذية حتى تنمو.
any nutrition in it?
مواد مغذية فيها؟
directly to the soil.
in the soil naturally.
التربة انتاجاً طبيعياُ.
التي خلطناها في التربة،
we have mixed in the soil,
is eat and multiply.
tree species of the place.
before human intervention is native.
تدخل الإنسان هو محلي.
of a natural forest.
existing there a long time ago.
هناك منذ زمن طويل.
poems and literature from the place,
والأدب المنتمي لذلك المكان،
belonging there.
tree layer and canopy layer.
شجرة وطبقة ظلة.
of each tree species in the mix.
نوع شجرة في الخليط.
of fruit-bearing trees.
a lot of birds or bees,
من الطيور والنحل،
wild evergreen forest.
وبرية دائمة الخضرة.
and germinate saplings out of them.
belonging to the same layer
تنتمي لنفس الطبقة
vertical space when they grow tall.
الرأسية عندما تكبر.
a thick layer of mulch,
طبقة سميكة من النشارة،
تكون التربة رطبة من الداخل.
the soil stays moist.
while it's freezing outside.
متجمد في الخارج.
can penetrate into it easily,
تستطيع اختراقها بسهولة،
seem like it's growing,
throughout this network of roots.
الشبكة من الجذور.
in the vicinity of a tree,
من الشجرة،
the nutrition to the tree.
has a healthy fungal network.
فطرية سليمة.
we water the forest.
القادمة نسقي الغابة.
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
للتربة من أجل أشجارنا فقط،
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
the ground anymore.
because they need sunlight as well.
إلى ضوء الشمس أيضاً.
that falls into the forest
into the atmosphere.
stop watering the forest.
عن ذلك تماماً في آخر الأمر.
and sometimes even dark.
falls on this forest floor,
في السقوط على أرضية هذه الغابة،
الشجر على السطح
can grow still bigger.
يسمح للغابة بالنمو أكثر.
growing exponentially.
themselves again and again --
a 100-year-old forest
غابة عمرها 100 عام
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shubhendu Sharma - Eco-entrepreneurShubhendu Sharma creates afforestation methods that make it easy to plant maintenance-free, wild and biodiverse forests.
Why you should listen
Industrial engineer Shubhendu Sharma was working at Toyota in India when he met Japanese forest expert Akira Miyawaki, who'd arrived to plant a forest at the factory, using a methodology he'd developed to make a forest grow ten times faster that normal. Fascinated, Sharma interned with Miyawaki, and grew his first successful forest on a small plot behind a house.
Today, his company Afforestt promotes a standardized method for seeding dense, fast-growing, native forests in barren lands, using his car-manufacturing acumen to create a system allowing a multilayer forest of 300 trees to grow on an area as small as the parking spaces of six cars -- for less than the price of an iPhone. Afforestt has helped grow forests at homes, schools and factories. Sharma seen improvement in air quality, an increase in biodiversity -- and the forests even generate fresh fruit. Afforestt is at work on a platform that will offer hardware probes to analyze soil quality, allowing the company to offer step-by-step instructions for anyone who wants to grow a native forest anywhere in the world.
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