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. 

Our Training Camp offers in-field seminars on Vedic principles and technologies

• Hands-on, hands-in education 
• Trainees stay in Vedic Eco Village facility

A day in the life at Vedic Eco Village:

Start your day in a serene environment which supports self-regulation and deeper sadhana. 

Morning fire: provides bath water and starts the daily cooking program, while heating your space. This applies to the cold and transitional times of year; except for the peak of summer, fire is needed for cold mornings in the mountains. Tending fires is a great meditative practice and an essential life skill.

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]