While M.A. Center NY/NJ lay dormant, our ashram vegetable garden became the loving responsibility of the Westchester Satsang — who grew more than fifty pounds of vegetables to donate to a local food bank.
Eleven volunteers grew vegetables from seed, expanded the garden beds, and planted and tended more than twenty varieties — tomatoes, lettuces, peppers, radishes, okra and pumpkin among them. The produce was then donated to a local social-services organization that feeds those in need in New Rochelle, New York.
It was a quiet, faithful expression of Amma's teaching that caring for nature and caring for our neighbours are one and the same — and a reminder that seva finds a way, even in the most challenging seasons.
