2021 #2 - Spring forward & cleanup activities

Jai Shri Krishna to all visitors!

Last few weeks have been quite busy @ the Vraj gardens.

Sharing a pic of the residual snow still trying to stay back (on March 20):

Last mound of snow trying to stay kool😎

Initial weeks included the following activities:

  • Inspection of the grounds 
    • Borders of the Butterfly Garden are falling apart (check the pic below)

Check out the rotted border.  We will need some help from 
volunteers to rebuild / restore the borders!

  • 1 ornamental tree in the entrance central garden did not survive and we suspect it was infected with fungus and was dug out and removed (and trust me, even dead trees that have been in the ground are really a challenge to dig out - but it was a fun kinda challenge!
            Read this part only if you want to know what was done -
            - We found the root ball location for this tree (@ a foot away from the trunk)
            - We dug deep enough to be able to push our shovels from opposite sides
            - And convinced the whole tree to come out of the ground!
  • Trimming of the hedges around the Nandalay entrance

  •  A big shoutout to the Vraj Youth volunteers (check them out @ Vraj Youth !) who painstakingly dug out the box woods from Yamunaji Tulsi Kyaro, and replanted them with care.  It is my understanding that replantings are not 100% successful, and was pleasantly surprised to see all the replanted boxwoods survive!

Check out the outer edge of the crescent - the bushes are all there!
  • We also completed the remaining activities:
    • Trimming, feeding, weeding etc, etc.
  • We have also started the prep for "Thakorji ni Wadi" - we plan to grow veggies for Thakorji's prasad!  A big project and will need lots of hands to make quick work.  but that update some other time. 
We would like to warmly welcome Samirbhai into our team during this period.  He and his wife have started helping us out in the volunteering activities and he brings in quite a lot of his experience!

Finally, do join us in the volunteering activities as and when time permits, and would be great if you can shared your details on the Vraj Volunteer site!  It is available on our Volunteer subsite @ vraj.org


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