Saalumarada Thimmakka she is the mother of more than eight thousand trees, planted by herself in her long life. This woman is 111 years old and is a ‘environmentalist Internationally recognized. No wonder it was awarded the National Citizen Award in India in 1995, with the Godfrey Phillips Bravery Award in 2006.
Saalumarada Thimmakka was born in Gubbi in 1910 into a simple family. On reaching marriage age, she married a local farmer, Bikkala Chikkayya. Unfortunately, they are not able to expand their family and have children, but together they manage to do something else, namely, they start cultivating the land, caring for their trees with great love, even when their resources are scarce. . Hence the expression “mother of trees”.
What can the two lovers do together? Together they begin to care for the trees, water them and protect them from various diseases and bad weather. It all started with grafting some banyan trees. Over time, the pair managed to multiply them, so much so that both sides of a four-kilometer stretch of road in Magadi Taluk, Karnataka, turned completely green.
Unfortunately, her husband died, but despite this, the woman continued to take care of her trees. On the other hand, a passion of this type could not die with him.
Source: Lega Nerd
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