Planted 100 Palm Trees (Palmyra palm tree or Panai Maram)... :)

 Hi Everyone --

I trust you, family and friends are doing well. 

In this blog, I am going to share little bit about my diwali weekend activity. It was a good long weekend and it helped me to plan better.

Let me add some value to our environment and society during this Diwali.

Ok, what is it about? Planting Palm Trees: It is called "Panai Maram" in Tamil or Palmyra palm tree as per google.. :) 

Here is the fruit from palm tree in raw form, it is called "Ice Apple". These days, people make juice (i.e. Nongu sarbath) from this and it is becoming very famous.

I decided to plant around 100 trees. My day started at 5.30 am. Typically all farmers get up very early and they get into farms early. :).. Farmers work hard, farming is like serving to people.  We finished all the work by 2.00 pm. Along with Palm trees, I did plant many Neem trees too.

Myself and folks working in farm, we started collecting all the palm seeds and packed in sacks. Unpacked in target place and started planting.  Below pics from the farm:

One or two seeds placed like below and covered with soil. You are all set. :)

OK, how many years it will take to grow fully. 20+ years. :) This is for next generation...

Once tree is fully grown, it will look like below:

Plam sugar (Karuppati) is very famous too. Many people do use this and it is good for diabetic.

BTW, this tree is Tamil Nadu's state tree too.  What are we doing for this state tree?

OK, why did I choose to plant this:

When we were kids, April and May month used to be very busy with these trees. i.e. We get Palm Wine or Neera or Sweet Toddy (Pathaneer) every day morning.  This is supposed to be very healthy and calcium rich. People sell this and the remaining palm water or palm wine is used to prepare palm sugar. There used to be lot of business around this actively.

It is very tough to climb the palm tree and bring palm wine. Have you seen people doing this?. Now a days, we see rarely people doing this.

Hope, technology can do a magic here, and bring healthy life back. :). For that, we need trees first; hence planted the same. :)

Hope, you enjoyed reading this. See you all in the next one... Your comments and queries welcome.