## Home Grown is Best August 3, 1976 - Room Conversation New Māyāpur Farm HIGHLIGHTS: **Produce must be fresh...puffing grains in hot sand... anything grown in a garden is worth a hundred times more than if it is purchased in the market...how to create qualified husbands?—train them nicely when they are boy**s (Prabhupāda is eating) Umm, better give this fresh fruit. Don't bring all rotten. In the market you cannot get fresh. All three hundred years old. Anything fresh, that is full of vitamin. Grow fresh, take fresh. In India there is no system to purchase three-hundred-years-old bread and eat. It must be freshly made. Wife is preparing in the simple oven, husband is eating, children are eating. You know Yaśodāmāyī calling Kṛṣṇa? "Come back! Your father is waiting!" You remember this? That is Indian system. The father and the children, they sit down, mother will bring fresh *dāl*, rice and *chapāti*, and distribute, and they eat. We used to do that. Along with father we shall sit down for eating, separately. There was no need of table—on the ground. And mother will distribute, cook. No servant; mother personally, wife personally. **Prabhupāda**: The cucumber cutting, there is a process. I'll show you. Sometimes cucumber is bitter. By that process it can be avoided. **Harikeśa**: You mean chop the top and you go... **Prabhupāda**: Ah, yes. That's all right. **Devotee**: This is bitter? **Prabhupāda**: We tasted one piece. Yes, little bitter. **Prabhupāda**: Very good. This should be arranged with lemon juice. If you have got these fruits, there is no need of purchasing. **Bhagavān**: The tomatoes are supposed to be as good as oranges. The tomatoes are supposed to be as healthy as oranges. **Prabhupāda**: Yes. In our childhood, these tomatoes were called foreign eggplant, *bilāti* *beguna*. And because it was foreign, nobody will touch it. In our childhood we'd never eat the tomato. It was rejected by whole Indian Hindu culture. **Harikeśa**: Tomatoes don't grow in India? **Prabhupāda**: No. It was imported. Because it was imported they would not touch. The mill cloth, because they were imported, no gentleman will touch. No religious function would allow to use mill—made cloth. And so far medicine is concerned, they would never touch it. **"Smash and Boil with Milk", **August 3, 1976: Room Conversation