This past weekend's harvest party continued on Sunday as a group from West Virginia University, led by two professors and seven undergrads, including Will Lewis ("Garden Boy" to those of us in the brahmacari ashram), our fearless summer SANTEE Farm and Gardens intern, came to the Garden of Seven Gates for the grand tomato harvest of 2007.
Will spent 90 days here this past summer as an apprentice for the Small Farm Training Center, and we were also joined by Dr. Sven Vernbindin from Holland, and Dr. Bill Bryant from Ireland, both professors in the agricultural science department at WVU, who came to check out our main agricultural projects at New Vrindaban (The Garden of Seven Gates and The SANTEE Teaching Garden).
Everyone was very impressed and full of encouragement for our humble efforts at self-sufficient, environmentally responsible, and spiritually soothing garden projects. All in all, the crew picked about 25 milk crates of tomatoes, and promised very eagerly to return soon.
Sriman Will Lewis a.k.a the Garden Boy!
Boys being college boys, of course a rotten tomato fight broke out. Using my past-life experience as a war-photographer in Korea, I remembered the subtle science of getting right into the middle of the action without getting sauced.
HG Devananda Pandit Prabhu thrilled and soothed the crowd with lovely musical renditions of Krsna's sweet pastimes
A Club 108 production
For more info on Club 108, New Vrindaban's progressive outreach hub, please e-mail us with ideas, suggestions, projects, and donations at nvclub108@gmail.com
1 comments:
this project has my one hundred and 10 million percent support. thank you. haribol!
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