This week at Hare Krishna Valley we were fortunate to have the presence of His Holiness Devamrita Swami, who facilitated a weekend retreat for over 100 guests. His discources were both informative and enlightening, and challenged the audience to see beyond the modern materialistic patterns of thought. On the Wednesday night my wife and...
This week at Hare Krishna Valley we began planning our spring crops by visiting some local organic gardeners in order to receive their advice as to what we should plant in September. Manigriva Prabhu is designing a new market garden on a 1/4 of an acre which will provide more variety in terms of...
On the weekend we hosted our monthly Sunday Feast programme at Hare Krishna Valley, with around 30 guests braving the extreme weather conditions to attend. They were rewarded with a sumptuous vegetarian feast, which followed our regular dancing and chanting and spiritual discussion. Some lovely guests stayed over night in our guest accomodation facilities,...
This week at Hare Krishna Valley, we hosted several devotees from Melbourne who came down to put the final touches on the artistic painting they have been doing in our Temple room. The final product looks very effective, and creates an exotic Indian Temple ambiance. We also went to Munish and Monica’s new house...
This week at Hare Krishna Valley we hosted a group of employees and volunteers from the Lorne Information Centre, who came to familiarise themselves with our farm. We took them for a tour of our Temple, the market garden and our eco-house, and then gave them a cooking demonstration. They then enjoyed a sumptuous...
Chanting In Ecstacy… We spent this week at Hare Krishna Valley renovating our office area, and attending to the vegetable garden. We were fortunate to host a visit from His Holiness Janananda Goswami, who gave the lecture at our Sunday feast programme. He taught all those who attended to chant Hare Krishna in ecstacy....
Some friends of ours from Melbourne, Renee and Shannen, came down to Hare Krishna Valley for 3 days to help out around the farm. They helped us pick zucchinis, and plant a couple of rows of eggplants and capsicums. They enjoyed their time in the great outdoors, and promised to return soon. Hare Krishna...
This week at Hare Krishna Valley we have been trying to keep up with the harvesting of our crop of zucchinis, which have been growing at an incredible rate with all of the sun and rain. We took 70 crates to the wholesale distributors in Geelong, and they have been buying everything that we...
On Pilgrimage… November 19th, 2010 Sorry I haven’t written for a few weeks, but I have been in India on my annual pilgrimage, and have been too absorbed in the holy land to post anything on the blog. We arrived in Mayapura, our world headquarters, which is about 100kms north of Kolkata on the...
This week at Hare Krishna Valley we prepared for and hosted a Vedic Astrology Retreat with Internationally renouned astrologer Bhanu Swami. Vedic astrology is the oldest branch of astrology in the world, based upon the Vedic texts of ancient India. Bhanu Swami explained the science in detail over the weekend, and the guests also...
