We are striving for economic self sufficiency to fulfill the material and spiritual needs of our community and the next generations. Opportunities for serving cows, pilgrims, eco tourism, farming, timber framing, cob building, tent raising, and landscaping are unlimited.    We are seeking people to help build eco village infrastructure and expand farming, cow care, ox power and food sovereignty.  Key developments are cows barns, grazing land fences and a Goshala foundation in the colony. Our building projects and facilities for volunteers are advancing thanks to our mill and abundant lumber. 

Two major factors determine the success or failure of all village communities: to adopt or to forsake: 1) Vedic Education and 2) Vedic Economy.

As in the original Vrindavan where cows play a central role in the lives of the Brajavasis, similarly, we plan to focus all the activities within our Vedic Eco Village around cows and agriculture.

Our goshala is under construction. A 40 by 40 foot foundation 6 feet deep was dug. Burned trees are being milled for building a goshala and Eco Village infrastructure.

Goshala Building Features

The cow shed will be a structure of wood and cob built into a NE facing dug-out slope. The design will resemble the traditional Indigenous pithouses that were historically constructed in this area. 

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, Cabbage, Green Beans, Zucchini, Radish, 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. 

We grow assorted flowers, herbs, and spices.  Our value added items are Jams, Pickled Good, Juice, Teas and Baked Goods.  We will grow hay for our future Eco Village cows.

We need farm communities that can grow food.  Srila Prabhupada predicted that, "One day millions of people would be coming to our Hare Krishna farms because they are unemployed. And we must accept them. We must feed them. We must let them live there and they will gradually become spiritualized. We will put them to work, they will get their food and there will be prasadam. They will hear something about Krishna and they will gradually by the millions become devotees."

“Clever means that he must stay in his own land. He should not be cheated by the paper and go to the city.” [Srila Prabhupada’s Conversations, Volume IV]

“Unless in the human society the Varnasrama system is introduced, no scheme or social order, health order or any order, political order, will be successful.” [October 18, 1977, Vrindavana]