Kollakkayil Devaki Amma (born c. 1934) is an Indian woman who began to grow a forest after a car crash prevented her from farming.
[3][1] After she recovered from the crash, Devaki Amma was unable to work in the paddy fields so she began to plant trees in her back garden.
[3][1] There are also rare plants and the wood attracts birds such as Amur falcons, bluethroats, black-winged stilts, paradise flycatchers and emerald doves.
[3][1][5] Devaki Amma worked for over thirty five years on the forest mostly on her own, using cows, buffalo and oxen, and harvesting rainwater.
[5] Devaki Amma was given the Social Forestry Award by the Alappuzha district and the Bhumitra Puruskar by Vijnana Bharati.