The EPIC Eco Park Padur

A sustainable world that is complete with a Miyawaki forest, rainwater harvesting system,  
vegetable patches, a biogas plant, millet gardens and birds, bees and flowers of every hue. 
The work commenced in 2021 with the idea that this residential plot in a peri urban layout 
would function as an eco-centre, a space where people gain awareness of sustainable  
environments and are trained in various livelihood opportunities. The Ecocentre aimed to 
show how even the smallest plot in an urban setting can be used to grow forests, sustain 
nutrition gardens, promote integrated farming practices including fisheries, mushroom culture 
and engage in a variety of activities promoting holistic natural farming with complementary 
livelihood incomposting. This plot in the midst of a unique ecosystem, surrounded on the  
eastern extreme by the Bay of Bengal and by the brackish waters in Kovalam and Muttukadu 
in the south and north, abutting the plot on the western side is the  Aarachi lake