Miyawaki Mini forests tiny one in my building 700sft Bangalore India but can do same anywhere you have water, soil, ...

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/... • 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 (ivn.nl/tinyforest/n... 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_yT4xwX3eQw70ml6rV2k/edit?usp=sharing 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 • We dont add fertilizers or any chemicals. Dig 4 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. • 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-XUng...

Medicinal trees Blr Miyawaki sublist

Can do same anywhere you have water, soil, list of native saplings ...

Can get saplings from below list from FRLHT, Bangalore India. http://tiny.cc/flrhtTrees Photos of the micro mini 650 sft forest we made Feb 2019 album

Use Porter too book a Tata ace for delivery. http://envis.frlht.org/amruthvana/gardenshop.php This link has the price list.

Following are the list of medicinal trees. Sublist from the Bengaluru full native trees list (full list here thanks to Shubhendu Sharma and the others at afforestt.com For a customized to your location and updated list contact them afforestt.com/seedling)

Layer means in Miyawaki method we plant trees close but place trees that grow to different heights near each other, so they all have a chance to get sunlight. So we have shrubs, sub trees, trees and canopy. Can see below list here too.

Home Forest Medicinal Species List
S. No.	Local Script	Common name	Layer	Botanical Name	Key Specialty	Habitat	%	Order with contin gency
1	Kolugida	Buddha coconut	C	Sterculia alata	Found in evergreen forests. Important for biodiversity.	Deciduous	5	2
2	White dhup	White Indian Dammar	C	Vateria indica	Fragrant resin. Flowers. Medicinal. Endangered.	Evergreen	5	2
3	Dhobi Tree	Musanedae	S	Mussaenda frondosa	The plant has shown noticeable pharmacological activities.	Evergreen	10	4
4	Buebell baeleria	Buebell baeleria	S	Barleria cristata	The bitter juice of leaves and root is used as an antibacterial and the seeds used as an antidote for snake bites.	Evergreen	5	2
5	Achenge	The Ashoka Tree	T	Saraca asoca	Medicinal. Attractive flowers. Fast growing.	Evergreen	10	4
6	Kaval	Wild guava, kumhi	T	Careya arborea	Fruit. Birds.  Flowers. Handsome tree with dome-shaped canopy.	Deciduous	10	4
7	Kaladri	Indian Elm	T	Holoptelea integrifolia	Medicinal. Fast growing.	Evergreen	10	4
8	Amtalakaayi, Ritha	South Indian Soapnut	T	Sapindus laurifolius	Soapnut.	Evergreen	10	4
9	Pinne	Alexandrian laurel ball tree	T	Calophyllum inophyllum	Fast growing. Shade. Timber. New leaves are attractive red.	Evergreen	10	4
10	Hooarse	Portia Tree	T	Thespesia populnea	Flowers. Hardy. Adaptable.	Deciduous	10	4
11	Ankolamara	Ankol	U	Alangium salvifolium	Beautiful white flowers. Ayurvedic medicinal.	Evergreen	5	2
12	Konda-mavu	Hill mango	U	Commiphora caudata	Medicinal. Flowers. Fragrant.	Evergreen	5	2
13	Tattuna	Indian Trumpet Flower	U	Oroxylum indicum	Attractive flowers. Pollinator magnet.	Deciduous	5	2
					TOTAL		100	40
	Area (sq m)	12
	Density (saplings per sq m)	3.3
	No. of Saplings	40

Quoting June 2020 version of https://www.afforestt.com/methodology In August 2019 our trainers from Japan were in India. Together we visited some of our old forests, did a PNV (Potential Natural Vegetation) survey and also planted a forest. During the training, we realised that our Open Source manuals need to focus more on PNV survey as the selection of species is the most critical part of forest creation.

Hence, we have decided to make necessary changes to our open source manuals to make the process of forest surveys and native species selection easier to understand.

We are in the process of creating free, easy to follow video tutorials to help people understand our forest creation techniques better. These will be released soon. Kindly check this space and our social media to receive information about the release of these videos.

Meanwhile, please go through this document to understand more about the method and what it’s not.