“TEN WELLS ARE EQUAL TO A POND, TEN PONDS TO A LAKE, 10 LAKES TO A SON AND TEN SONS ARE EQUAL TO ONE TREE.”
— SURAPALA
— SURAPALA
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About the Project
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Fruits and flowers are necessary offering at every puja in any Hindu Temple. A variety of vegetables is also necessary for the unique form of worship for Shakambhari Devi. We have been collecting and growing heirloom fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers for use in Temple offerings in addition to keeping and promoting heritage breed livestock. We have also fed our volunteers with the excess of produce. We have sold fruits, veggies, plants, and flowers to help offset our costs for growing and to help save the historic varieties for future generations. As mass production moves toward promoting a very few varieties, many of the thousands of heirloom varieties are being lost.
Bio-diversity is essential for food security in the future. Our work to help maintain and spread the historic varieties of fruit and flowers helps to ensure that food and flowers will be available to future generations. Goddess Shakambhari provides nourishment to humanity. She has provided a wide variety of fruits and vegetables and flowers and healing herbs for the nourishment of the world. We praise her and help to promote her will for the world when we work to preserve the variety that nature has blessed us with. |
