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India is surging towards greater urbanization, with an estimated population of 590 million to be living in the cities by 2030. Tamil Nadu is one of the states which is likely to be more than 50 percent urbanized and Chennai, the capital city would grow to a population of 11 million in 2030. Countries like China and Cuba have tried to integrate food production into urban development. Beijing since 1960s, has its vegetable supply come from the city's own market gardens that costs less than produce trucked from distant areas. Cuba has also promoted intensive urban and peri-urban horticulture since the early 1990s, accounting for 60% o horticultural production. Among other ways of promoting urban food security, FAO has worked to establish school gardens as means of promoting child nutrition by providing tools, seeds and training in more than 30 countries. This helps children getting familiar with horticulture and help teachers develop nutrition courses and, when replicated at home, would go a long way to improve family nutrition as well. This case showcases the steps taken in design and dissemination of the idea of raising fruit bearing and other trees through school children. The work is carried out by Indo - International Initiative for Billions of Fruit Trees (IIIBFT), a Chennai based NGO. It has initiated a billion fruit trees campaign and begun the implementation of the idea in educational institutions (primarily schools) in and around Chennai city. The case documents the experiences in implementing the exercise of involving children in city schools. It identifies working solutions for schools to undertake the project and execute the idea. It looks into the attitudes of schools, teachers and children in developing a sapling bank within the school. It tries to understand the motivation and incentives required to promote societal participation.