Noni Building Blessing, 2018

What was just an empty field April 27th last year is today a fully finished and equipped processing facility for noni from our certified organic orchard located across the river from the monastery on land leased from the State. The orchard's eight acres has proved to be a successful "cash crop" which ultimately will support all the agricultural activity on the 312 acre parcel. This 24 foot by 56 foot building is one of the few we've built "from scratch" at the monastery and was a bit of a challenge to manage. But it is now finished and exactly what we needed to clean, ferment and press what becomes "Wailua River Noni Juice." Since its inception, the monastery has always maintain agricultural activities. Earlier it was honey production on a commercial scale; now, with the acquisition of the large parcel of former sugar cane land it is noni, nursery trees and hardwood trees. One benefit of this agricultural activity is to keep the monastery closely tied to the local community of our rural island. Our thanks to architect Thamby Kumaran who did the building plans as a donation, to Easvan Param who installed all the electrical wiring and to all the others who helped.

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Bodhinatha arrives for the blessing

Paramacharya Sivanathaswami performs Ganesha puja to start the building blessing

Main entry door of the bulding where we bring in the harvested noni

Puja complete, Paramacharya goes through the building sprinkling water everywhere

This are is a state-certified commercial kitchen, required for the pressing of the noni. Previously we\

d been hauling noni ready to press to town to a rented kitchen-4,000 pounds at a time, which created a lot of extra work. '

Satguru prepares to break a coconut with camphor burning on top

On the left shelf are pallets of bottled noni, on the floor recently harvested noni starting its 60 to 80 day fermentation process

Crack! and the blessing is finished...

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