“About our Garden”
August 16, 2010 | Category: Daily Life | Phurpa Yangzom, Namgey Chodron (B), Sangey Drolma, and Namgey Chodron (A) (class VI students)
Some of the vegetables we plant in our garden are spinach, tomato, cucumber, corn, beans, chillie, cabbage, cauliflower, corriander leaves, pumpkin, bitter gourd, beetroot, and gourd.
We work with our amalas and teachers in our garden.
We planted onions but they did not grow because maybe they were late.
We picked some spinach and gave it to the kitchen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They cooked it at breakfast with roti, at lunch with rice, and at dinner with ti-momo.
One day in July some of class six’s students went in the garden and we picked sunflowers. Then we ate them.
Some spinaches were damaged.
We like to work in our garden because it gives us more energy than vegetables that are bought from the shop.
Sometimes we go to the garden to pick wildgrass. We collect wildgrass and make compost. Then we throw the compost into the garden. The compost makes the soil fertile and vegetables grow well.
In the future we want to plant more onions and cucumbers because now onions and cucumbers were damaged. The onions and cucumbers were damaged because insects ate them.
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Phurpa Yangzom, Namgey Chodron (B), Sangey Drolma, and Namgey Chodron (A) (class VI students)
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Jhamtse Gatsal, Tibetan for “Garden of Love and Compassion”, is a children’s community located in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas. Opened in 2006, it is currently school and home for 75 children from disadvantaged family situations in the nearby villages. Read More...
Jeff Bailey
on August 18th, 2010Hi, I am Jeff Bailey. I am on the Jhamtse board here in the U.S.. I also lead a couple of Gen Lobsang’s sanghas while he is away.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading your postings on the garden and your visit to the village.
I had a garden for many years, but I don’t have room where I live now.
Nothing is better than vegetables fresh from the garden! Working in the garden is good work and can be relaxing, even meditative. But, a garden is like the rest of life, sometimes insects eat the fruits of your labor, sometimes we plant too late and sometimes too early, sometimes we don’t get enough rain, sometimes it rains too much, but it is still worth the work!
I have watched from America as the school has grown. We are very proud of you students! Keep up the great work!!!
I hope to come visit you someday. Until then, know that there are people over here that care about you.
May all beings be happy!
Jeff