Morning Walk Around Farm – July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur

This is mung dal, Srila Prabhupada, mung dal

Prabhupada: Oh.

Visvambhara: ...they produce a type of nut [chestnut].

Prabhupada: Who eats that?

Visvambhara: 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.

Visvambhara: See from the garden many tomatoes and squash. Cauliflower is coming also. [break]

Prabhupada: ...a large stock of water.

Visvambhara: 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?

Visvambhara: 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. But most of our land extends this way.

Bhagavan: Our land is mostly here.

Visvambhara: We have just taken barley from this field, Srila Prabhupada. Many grains.

Prabhupada: [indistinct]

Visvambhara: This is our land. There is some buckwheat barley.

Prabhupada: Hare Krsna.

[break] ...castle?

Visvambhara: 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?

Visvambhara: 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. [japa] [break]

Prabhupada: How many cows you have got?

Hari-sauri: How many cows?

Visvambhara: We have three milking cows and four that will be milking. We're experimenting with different types of cows, the Brown Swiss. [break]

Prabhupada: Thank you. [break] ...You have got?

Haribolananda: One.

Prabhupada: What does it do?

Haribolananda: Pulling the loads, heavy loads. [break]

Bhagavan: ...prabhus, it's too narrow here right now. Prabhupada will be going in... [break]

Visvambhara: 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, 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-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?

Visvambhara: Yes. One year.

Prabhupada: Bull.

Visvambhara: Cow. [break]

Bhagavan: ...this here, and the vegetable garden is up here. [devotees chanting japa]

Haribolananda: This is mung dal, Srila Prabhupada, mung dal. 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.

Bhagavan: These are all table grapes.

Visvambhara: They are melons, Srila Prabhupada. You can see here, Srila Prabhupada.

Hari-sauri: What are they?

Visvambhara: Melons.

Hari-sauri: There are melons also, Srila Prabhupada.

Haribolananda: 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]