Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a forest in your backyard
סובהונדו שרמה: איך לגדל יער בחצר האחורית שלכם
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.
of my own house.
of these forests professionally.
של היערות האלה באופן מקצועי.
where animals live together.
של אדמה שם חיות גרות יחד.
of our urban existence.
של הקיום העירוני שלנו.
that you just can't walk into it.
שאתם פשוט לא יכולים ללכת לתוכו.
how big or small they are.
we live in today was forest.
on those forests,
to nature as well,
other species on the planet.
our natural habitat.
סביבת המחיה הטבעית שלנו.
these forests professionally --
את היערות האלו מקצועית --
natural resources into products.
out of a rubber tree,
become a natural resource again.
להפוך למשאב טבעי שוב.
into an irreversible state.
works in a totally opposite way.
by bringing elements together,
become a natural resource again.
הופכים למשאבים טבעיים שוב.
in the backyard of my own house.
I worked with nature,
in 25 cities across the world.
needed to make a forest
these elements together
זה לחבר את האלמנטים האלה
it becomes compact --
היא הופכת לדחוסה --
available around,
שזמינה בסביבה,
the capacity to hold water,
like peat or bigas,
and it stays moist.
sunlight and nutrition.
אור וחומרים מזינים.
any nutrition in it?
את החמרים המזינים שהיא צריכה?
directly to the soil.
חומרי תזונה ישירות לאדמה.
in the soil naturally.
באופן טבעי.
we have mixed in the soil,
is eat and multiply.
לעשות זה לאכול ולהתרבות.
tree species of the place.
את מיני העצים המקומיים של המקום.
before human intervention is native.
הוא מקומי.
of a natural forest.
existing there a long time ago.
שהיו קיימים לפני הרבה זמן.
poems and literature from the place,
פואמות וספרות של המקום,
belonging there.
tree layer and canopy layer.
שכבת העצים ושכבת החופה.
of each tree species in the mix.
של כל מין של עץ בתערובת.
of fruit-bearing trees.
a lot of birds or bees,
wild evergreen forest.
and germinate saplings out of them.
ומנביטים את היחורים מהם.
belonging to the same layer
vertical space when they grow tall.
על אותו מרחב אנכי כשהם גדלים.
a thick layer of mulch,
שכבה עבה של גבבה,
the soil stays moist.
while it's freezing outside.
בזמן שקפוא בחוץ.
can penetrate into it easily,
שהשורשים יכולים לחדור אליה בקלות,
seem like it's growing,
throughout this network of roots.
in the vicinity of a tree,
the nutrition to the tree.
has a healthy fungal network.
we water the forest.
אנחנו משקים את היער.
and soil nutrition only for our trees,
את כל המים והחומרים המזינים רק לעצים,
growing on the ground.
it blocks the sunlight.
the ground anymore.
because they need sunlight as well.
בגלל שהם גם צריכים אור.
that falls into the forest
into the atmosphere.
stop watering the forest.
ולבסוף מפסיקים להשקות את היער.
and sometimes even dark.
falls on this forest floor,
can grow still bigger.
כך שהיער יכול לגדול עוד יותר.
growing exponentially.
themselves again and again --
a 100-year-old forest
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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