Guruthondu Day Tree Planting

Every quarter the monastery observes Guruthondu day. On this day the entire monastery gets together and pushes forward on a single project that the guru decides on. Yesterday morning, following their meditation, the monks geared up with their boots, water bottles, gloves and sunhats, then drove to Himalayan Acres across the river. We've been working hard to prepare many acres of land for hardwood planting, and yesterday a large part of that initiative moved ahead. Overall the monks planted 1,400 koa seedlings throughout one of our freshly tilled fields. We will also have some sandalwood trees planted intermittently throughout this field. One day these trees will be a whole forest of very special hardwoods. Jai Ganesha!

Paramacharya places one of the seedlings in the ground

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re hoping that these little koa trees grow up strong'

This is just one of many large fields which we plan to plant

The monks, sevaks and taskforcers arrive, ready to plant

here is on of the trays of trees

Some dig holes, some place fertilizer, some lay trees and others plant them

Tejadevanatha goes along and lays fertilizer in the dug holes

Vel helps by planting

Sivarathna stands before the planted field

lines are laid out to make straight rows

This rainbow presented itself on and off throughout the day

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