Morning Walk Around Farm Prabhupada: You have so much land to cultivate here. Devotee (1): …they produce a type of nut. Prabhupada: Who eats that? Devotee (1): We can eat. We roast in the oven, it is very good, offer it to the Deities. Prabhupada: [break]…. A small potato, in the sukta you gave it? Harikesa: No, that was radish. Devotee (1): See from the garden many tomatoes and squash. Cauliflower is coming also. Prabhupada: [break] …a large stock of water. Devotee (1): Yes. There is lots of water underground, but it requires great equipment to bring it up in order to water all the land. Prabhupada: What is the difficulty? Devotee (1): 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. Prabhupada: This land ours? Hari-sauri: Yes. Where that hump is on the brown field, up to that, where that tree is. Most of our land extends this way. Bhagavan: Our land is mostly here. Devotee (1): We have just taken barley from this field, Srila Prabhupada, many grains. Devotee (2): This is some, some buckwheat barley. Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. [break] …Castle? Devotee (1): 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. Prabhupada: So it is not being used? Devotee (1): Oh, yes. [break] …where we grow most of the flowers for the Deities. Prabhupada: Oh, that greenhouse. That’s a greenhouse? Bhagavan: We have built that this year. Hari-sauri: How many cows? Devotee (1): We have three milking cows and four that will be milking. We’re experimenting with different types of cows, the Brown Swiss. Prabhupada: [break] Thank you. [break] …You have got? Devotee (2): One. Prabhupada: What does it do? Devotee (2): Pulling the loads, heavy loads. Bhagavan: [break]…. It’s too narrow here right now, Prabhupada will be going in…. [break] Devotee (1): Yes, the trees also is our forest. Hari-sauri: These are nice paths for walking, very open. Bhagavan: This way we have to go. Prabhupada: Why they congesting the city in this, such light? [break] …very nicely, people may seek out. Thank you. All right. (laughter) Hari-sauri: He was going to give him a flower, and then just as Prabhupada reached out he took it back. Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. [break]…. to capture him. (cow bells) He’s very young? Devotee (1): One year. Prabhupada: Bull Devotee (1): Cow. Bhagavan: This here, and the vegetable garden is up here. Devotee (2): This is mung dahl, Srila Prabhupada, mung dahl. And these are marigolds. We put them in the greenhouse because it gives a longer season. Then we’ll have more flowers for the garlands for the Deities. Bhagavan: These are all table grapes. Devotee (1): They are melons, Srila Prabhupada. You can see here, Srila Prabhupada. Hari-sauri: There are melons also, Srila Prabhupada. Devotee (2): 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. Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. (end)
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
July 31, 1976, New Mayapur (French farm)