Srila Prabhupada's idea: produce your food locally

[Bhakti Vikasa Swami]

Prabhupada: My idea is that all our centers should be self-supported. We do not
like that idea that for your support you have to go 100 miles to get your
bread. That is a very dangerous drawback. You produce your food locally and
then support yourself. The main problem is what to eat, where to sleep. So we
get some place and support ourself by producing our own food. We have already
begun in New Vrindaban, West Virginia, and similarly in other centers, we are
producing our food, grains, vegetables, fruits and milk. That is sufficient.
But we don't kill any animals. That we don't do.


Room Conversation with Professor Durckheim, German Spiritual Writer - June 19,
1974, Germany