Morning Walk Around Farm
Viśvambhara: We can eat. We roast in the oven. It is very good, offer it to the Deities.
Prabhupāda:
Oh.
Viśvambhara:
…they produce a type of nut [chestnut].
Prabhupāda:
Who eats that?
Viśvambhara:
We can eat. We roast in the oven. It is very good, offer it to the Deities.
Prabhupāda:
[break] …a small potato, in the śukta you gave it?
Harikeśa:
No, that was radish.
Viśvambhara:
See from the garden many tomatoes and squash. Cauliflower is coming also. [break]
Prabhupāda:
…a large stock of water.
Viśvambhara:
Yes. There is lots of water underground, but it requires great equipment to bring it up in order to water all the land.
Prabhupāda:
What is the difficulty?
Viśvambhara:
We have only the previous pump, which was here before, and it’s not strong enough to water everything. So we need to install a new pump to get more water.
Prabhupāda:
This land ours?
Hari-śauri:
Yes. Where that hump is on the brown field, up to that, where that tree is. But most of our land extends this way.
Bhagavān:
Our land is mostly here.
Viśvambhara:
We have just taken barley from this field, Śrīla Prabhupāda. Many grains.
Prabhupāda:
[indistinct]
Viśvambhara:
This is our land. There is some buckwheat barley.
Prabhupāda:
Hare Kṛṣṇa.
[break] …castle?
Viśvambhara:
This is what they call a water castle. The water goes up and there’s a big reservoir, and then by pressure it distributes to the houses.
Prabhupāda:
So it is not being used?
Viśvambhara:
Oh, yes. [break] …where we grow most of the flowers for the Deities.
Prabhupāda:
Oh, that greenhouse. That’s a greenhouse?
Bhagavān:
We have built that this year. [japa] [break]
Prabhupāda:
How many cows you have got?
Hari-śauri:
How many cows?
Viśvambhara:
We have three milking cows and four that will be milking. We’re experimenting with different types of cows, the Brown Swiss. [break]
Prabhupāda:
Thank you. [break] …You have got?
Haribolānanda:
One.
Prabhupāda:
What does it do?
Haribolānanda:
Pulling the loads, heavy loads. [break]
Bhagavān:
…prabhus, it’s too narrow here right now. Prabhupāda will be going in… [break]
Viśvambhara:
Yes, the trees also is our forest.
Hari-śauri:
These are nice paths for walking, very open.
Bhagavān:
This way we have to go.
Prabhupāda:
Why they congesting the city, hellish. Such life.
[break] …very nicely, people may see garden.
[devotees and children are accompanying on the walk]
Thank you. All right. [laughter]
Devotee:
What did he do?
Hari-śauri:
He was going to give him a flower, and then just as Prabhupāda reached out he took it back.
Prabhupāda:
Hare Kṛṣṇa.
[break] …to capture him. [cow bells] He’s very young?
Viśvambhara:
Yes. One year.
Prabhupāda:
Bull.
Viśvambhara:
Cow. [break]
Bhagavān:
…this here, and the vegetable garden is up here. *[devotees chanting japa]
Haribolānanda:
This is mung dāl, Śrīla Prabhupāda, mung dāl. And these are marigold flowers. We put them in the greenhouse because it gives a longer season. Then we’ll have more flowers for the garlands for the Deities.
Bhagavān:
These are all table grapes.
Viśvambhara:
They are melons, Śrīla Prabhupāda. You can see here, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Hari-śauri:
What are they?
Viśvambhara: Melons.
Hari-śauri:
There are melons also, Śrīla Prabhupāda.
Haribolānanda:
Here are flowers. This is a heater for the winter to keep the temperature up. We try to grow tomatoes for the Deities in the winter.
Prabhupāda:
Hare Kṛṣṇa. [end]