Jadav Payeng, is famous as the “Forest Man of India,” planted a variety of trees in Molai Forest, including bamboo, cotton trees, and other indigenous species. The forest now includes several thousand trees, including arjun (Terminalia arjuna), Pride of India (Lagerstroemia speciosa), royal poinciana (Delonix regia), silk trees (Albizia procera), and moj,Arjun,Gulmohar, Bamboo covers over 300 hectares of the forest.
Molai forest is a forest on Majuli district in the Brahmaputra River near Kokilamukh, Assam, India.
He planted for 3 months every year on a barren land which now has turned into a Famous forest.
The Majuli island forest in Assam India,s 300 hectares and is bigger than central park.
I wrote about how to create a forest garden at home using the Miyawaki method, but that’s stretching it a bit far.
But the jungle garden in the village is real .The story of India’s green hero is real too
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” ~ John Muir.
To that I want to add …everyone needs a little bit of Green forest in their life to really bloom.
I am participating in Blogchatter A2Z 2025 and also the April Ultimate blog challenge and you can find all the April posts here. This is a W post.