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{{Infobox organization
| name = Vanastree
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| image = File:Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Nari Shakti Puruskar for the year 2017 to Vanastree, Sirsi, Karnataka (Institutional), at a function, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi.jpg
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| image_alt = Woman on left awarded prize by Indian President on right
| caption = A representative of Vanastree receiving the 2017 [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]]
| origins = 2008
| language = [[Kannada]]
| awards = [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]]
| website = {{URL|vanastree.org/}}
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'''Vanastree''' is a farming and conservation project registered in 2008, in [[Uttara Kannada]], in the Indian state of [[Karnataka]].<ref name="DH-2009" /><ref name="Kalpavriksh">{{cite web |title=Malnad Home Garden & Seed Exchange Collective |url=https://kalpavriksh.org/our-work/conservation-livelihoods/malnad-home-garden-seed-exchange-collective/ |website=Kalpavriksh |access-date=25 June 2022 |date=1 August 2020}}</ref> In [[Kannada]], Vanastree means "Women of the Forest".<ref name="DH-2009">{{cite news |last1=Pailoor |first1=Anitha |title=Vanastree: Empowering women |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/12134/vanastree-empowering-women.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Deccan Herald |date=6 July 2009 |language=en}}</ref> As of 2013, Vanastree numbered 150 women [[Sustainable agriculture|farming sustainably]] and it promotes [[seed exchange]].<ref name="DH-2013">{{cite news |last1=Achanta |first1=Pushpa |title=Realities of the landless woman farmer |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/318870/realities-landless-woman-farmer.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Deccan Herald |date=14 March 2013 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="ET">{{cite news |last1=V |first1=Nirupama |title=Closing time! Malnad Mela in Bengaluru comes to an end after 16 years |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/its-curtains-for-malnad-mela-in-bengaluru/articleshow/56664345.cms |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=The Economic Times |agency=ET Bureau |date=19 January 2017}}</ref> By 2017, Vanastree products were available for sale in [[Bengaluru]], the capital of Karnataka.<ref name="ET" /> The same year, Vanastree was awarded the [[Nari Shakti Puraskar]] in recognition of its achievements.<ref name="MM">{{cite news |title=Maharashtra's Sindhutai Sapkal, Urmila Apte to be honoured with Naari Shakti 2017 awards |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/maharashtras-sindhutai-sapkal-urmila-apte-to-be-honoured-with-naari-shakti-2017-awards/articleshow/63204935.cms |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=Mumbai Mirror |date=7 March 2018 |language=en}}</ref>

The Vanastree garden in [[Sirsi, Karnataka|Sirsi]] has saved seeds from over 100 types of vegetables.<ref name="TS">{{cite news |last1=Gandhi |first1=Maneka |title=For an organic world |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/features/for-an-organic-world-1502599286.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=The Statesman |date=11 March 2018}}</ref> Sisters Mala and Sonia Dhawan worked with Vanastree and then set up the handicrafts organisation A Hundred Hands.<ref name="TNE">{{cite news |last1=Sebastian |first1=Shevlin |title=A hundred hands on deck |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2019/dec/19/a-hundred-hands-on-deck-2078134.html |access-date=25 June 2022 |work=The New Indian Express |date=19 December 2019}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:2008 establishments in Karnataka]]
[[Category:Nari Shakti Puraskar winners]]

Vanastree - Revision history

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