Reshma Ranjan, inspired by her grandparents, turned her hobby into a medium of earning income. She runs a YouTube channel with over a million subscribers and teaches people to adopt healthy gardening practices to maintain a balance in their stressful lives.
Bokaro: Reshma Ranjan’s love for planting trees made her leave her government job. Gardening used to be her hobby and she chose to give up her stressful working life and turned her gardening skills into a money-earning medium. Now, she wakes up every morning with a positive outlook on her life and makes YouTube videos to support her family financially.
Story of Reshma Ranjan
Reshma is a resident of Bokaro, Jharkhand. She has a master’s degree in Plant Breeding Genetics and a master’s in Agricultural Sciences from the Indian Council of Agricultural Resources. She had been enthusiastic about plants all her life and therefore took up a government job as an Agriculture Coordinator. Dejected by the limitations of her job, she felt stuck and could not teach more people about gardening.
Love of plants
Reshma inherited her love of plants from her grandparents. She shares that her grandparents’ house always cheered her up because of all the greenery it was surrounded by. Her grandparents grew all kinds of trees and plants spreading joy and positivity. Reshma, as a child, spent a lot of time sitting under the cool shade of the trees, which made her feel relaxed.
That’s exactly the kind of life she wanted to lead after growing up. Her home is so full of plants that it appears that everything in her little nest is blanketed by a shade of green. Reshma loves Bonsai and uses various techniques to keep her plants healthy.
Leaving the job
Reshma worked as an Agriculture Coordinator; a field related to her interest. But the job could not provide her satisfaction and it became another ordeal which made her grow a distance from her plants. To relive what she had experienced as a young kid at her grandparents’ home, she gave up her job and decided to make a YouTube channel to give a push to her dreams.
Videos going viral
Reshma started implementing all the knowledge she had gained during her studies and started making videos. She launched her first channel in 2016 which was called ‘Nature in Pot’. It took a while to gain some followers but once she started receiving support from other plant-lovers, her life came back on track. She realized that a lot of people are frustrated with their jobs, and they adopt gardening as a hobby to take a break from their busy lives and feel a sense of peace.
Reshma launched her second channel under the name ‘Prakriti Garden’ and posted a video of planting roses. Her video went viral and she gained many followers. She grows flowers, vegetables, fruits and all kinds of decorative plants. A video of hers where she used a gardening method called hydroponic and grew coriander and gram from it earned her more than 24 million views on the video.
Earnings from gardening
At present, Reshma’s channel has more than one million subscribers. She is active on all her social media accounts with thousands of people following her gardening practices. She educates people to plant trees the right way to keep them healthy. A healthy plant is representative of a healthy mindset. She believes that gardening is like a meditative practice which calms you from the core.
Reshma earns a decent amount of money from her YouTube videos. She makes around Rs 1 lakh a month and continues spreading happiness.
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