Join our efforts to build a Vedic Eco Village and manifest a self-reliant spiritual community with food sovereignty.  Farming, stewarding the forest, milling lumber, building infrastructure, farm planning and fire wood-based activities are ongoing daily.   Chulha stoves are fuelled by cow dung & wood chopped by kids.  Help manifest key projects of the VēV master plan.

We are expanding our Dharma Discovery for kids program to a Saturday event where we clean up the slash piles left behind from clear cuts of the burned forest.  With the help of local kids, we are clearing the slash piles blocking roads and pathways.  There are no logs worth milling in slash piles, but there are lots of burned standing dead trees worth milling.  We are researching and testing the best way of using deeply burned trees either for firewood or building materials.

Our key projects this year focus on facilities and fenced grazing land for a new goshala.  Fencing grazing land with X-fences has re-started, built from thinned trees in nearby over-grown forests.  

A NorthEast facing dug-out cave will house a new goshala.  The cowshed, worker house will be built with milled local lumber.  A mass heater will heat living spaces, storage shed and warm water 

Help manifest our buildings in harmony with nature, accepting and preparing for future fires and other weather extremes. 

Farming and cow-protection provides the foundation for self-sustaining living and also generated prosperity for the rest of the society. A village should be an ecologically closed unit. Dung from cows fertilizers the grains and vegetables, and waste from vegetables and grains is food for cows and sheep. The surplus from this ecological cycle should be sold to markets outside the village. This makes for a stable economy.

We are currently growing Carrots, Beets, Potatoes, Peas, Cucumber, Broccoli, Kale, Chard, Lettuce, Spinach, Strawberry, Cabbage, Green Beans, Zucchini, Radish, Fennel, Squash, Asparugus and Corn. 

Apple, Pear, Cherry, Apricot, Hazelnut and Walnut trees trees are 10 years old.  Raspberries, strawberries, currants, gooseberries, honeyberries (hascaps) and saskatoon berries are growing. Millet, buckwheat, grains and pulse seeds are being saved for future plantings. 

Society in Vedic history was a flourishing self-sustaining cow-centric and cow-revered culture. Cows and bulls are an essential contributors to peace and economic prosperity. Sastra tells human society how to live a simple life free from anxiety depending on the cow and bull, the land and the ample supply of natural gifts from the Creator.

To cultivate this culture in our village, Govardhan Goshala hosted Gopuja in a grazing areas on the full moon purnima.  The puja featured Surabhi cow and friends who were fed our locally grown foods.

Our desert like summer weather normally begins in June.  Everyday we are eating salad and green leafy vegetables from the garden and still carrots from last harvest.  A favorite is carrot, beet and parsley juice.  New vegetables are harvested every week.