"The backbone of the SRF is the monks and nuns who run the retreat
center, preside over temple services, counsel members and work on the
meditation and vegetable gardens. About 15 Encinitas SRF monks care
for the meditation gardens. Over 30 volunteer SRF members help grow
approximately 40 fruits and vegetables on the patches of land between
San Elijo and Summit Avenues and Santa Fe Drive, an area that surely
would otherwise be saturated with condos and homes if it weren’t for
the SRF owning it. This home-grown food feeds the monks and nuns at
the Encinitas SRF as well as the men’s-only ashram in Hidden Valley
outside Escondido."
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