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New Sprayer on a Trailer

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For years we’ve been using standard hand watering cans to nourish young plants that can’t easily be reached with a garden hose. And even older plants have to get watered during our occasional dry spells. As you can imagine, it’s rather laborious to fill a few small cans at a spigot and then go out to various plants, back and forth, back and forth. To speed up the watering process, we’ve just purchased a 60-gallon sprayer tank on a trailer, with a strong pump. Hook it to a utility vehicle, and you can cover many plants before having to refill. Besides the spray gun, it also has a boom attachment with seven spray nozzles. We assembled it the other day, and now we’re figuring out some extra parts needed to connect it to our vehicles.

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Temple Kitchen Game

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Jai Ganesha!

Time to try your hand at keeping a busy temple kitchen serving prasadam during daily activities!
This little browser game was built by ai with instructions from our monks (so if you see any errors, blame the ai 🤔)

Start by selecting level 1.

To move use the WASD or Arrow keys. use space bar to pickup and drop-off ingredients or serving dishes.
(tip: you can carry up to two of any item at a time—useful if the incoming orders are stacking up quickly. Also, be careful about picking up the wrong ingredients, there’s a trashcan if you need it)

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Basil in Greenhouse

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Jai Ganesha!

Recently, we visited our greenhouse and saw a new batch of basil growing. We use our fresh basil to make pesto, which we serve with noodles and on our monthly pizza treat, baked in our wood-fired oven. During our visit, we saw Sadhaka Shankaranatha and Sivanadiyar Arinien working together in the greenhouse. It was heartwarming to see how happy they were while working side by side.

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In Siva’s Sacred Gardens Today

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  • Dwarf lotus in bloom
  • A rare Canna flower named Cleopatra on San Marga
  • Alocasia hybrid
  • An orchid up close.
  • Blue Encephalartos called lehmannii
  • Bougainvilla bonsai at kadavul Temple pool
  • Close up of seeds on the Curry Leaf tree
  • Not quite a plant, it’s a Green Shield Lichen on a rock. Lichens are two species (a fungus and a bacterium) living in symbiotic cooperation, one for structure, one for photosynthesis.
  • These flowers are tiny, about 1/8 inch wide, from a Penta bush

Today pilgrims will be guided through Siva’s Sacred Gardens on their way to Iraivan Temple. We thought our CyberCadets would like to take a virtual tour of what they will see this morning. And a quote from Gurudeva’s Lemurian Scrolls:

“In our gardens, Lord Umāgaṇeśa sends His power through fruits and vegetables, the ones that grow above the ground, to permeate our nerve system with wisdom, clearing obstacles in our path when eaten.”

A short film made by a CyberCadet who took his camera into our garden and heard it inviting us to be as affectionately detached as a drop of water on a lotus leaf!

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What Is Hinduism Book, On-Demand Print Edition

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As we have mentioned previously, when a book inventory gets low, we are generally shifting to on-demand printing because we no longer have storage space for hundreds or thousands of books. Plus we can easily update the book contents whenever needed. We are currently using Amazon KDP as our on-demand printer, and it comes with more limitations for page margins and manuscript size. We usually have to rearrange aspects of the book to fit their specifications. The latest case is What is Hinduism? book. The book contains 46 chapters that are Insight Sections compiled from past issues of Hinduism Today magazine. We are having to increase the size of the manuscript pages and shift graphics and text to fit within the new margin rules. This would be a tremendous task if done manually. Fortunately AI has advanced at just the right time. Now we can set up AI to do a large amount of the resizing work. Above are opening spreads for some of the book chapters.

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Hydroponic Greenhouse Crops Currently Producing

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Here is a selection of hydroponic greenhouse crops that are currently in production mode. First up we have a row of basil leaves which will end up in curries and pesto. Then, multiple rows of lettuce. The ever-tasty purple-ish kale. A row of red bell peppers grows tall. Big red tomatoes are coming back on line after a hiatus. The last photo shows some of the complexity to arrange for irrigation and nutrient supply.

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