July 31, 1976, New Māyāpur

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. 

Viśvambhara: This is some, 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] 

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 [indistinct]. [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 ḍāl, Śrīla Prabhupāda, mung ḍāl. 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] 

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