Bengaluru's Kadalekai Parishe is popularly known as the groundnut festival. Farmers visit the Bull Temple in Basavanagudi to offer their first crop of groundnut to Lord Basava. Piles of different varieties of groundnut are seen stocked up at colorful stalls in the area surrounding the Bull Temple and in one of Bengaluru’s oldest suburb near Bugle Rock Park. Visitors buy groundnuts in bulk directly from farmers. Kadalekai festival is usually held in November or early December on the last Monday of Kartika month each year.