Our key projects this year focus on facilities and fenced grazing land for a new goshala. Help manifest our buildings in harmony with nature, accepting and preparing for future fires and other weather extremes.
Our building techniques improve and evolve with every ecovillage project. Our traditional vedic mud-stoves (chulha) used for cooking and heating are available in 3 locations. Outdoor kitchen & solar shower facilities are under construction. Crowded trees from our forest are milled for ecovillage building materials.
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.
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.
As in the original Vrindavan, 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. We will build a new goshala to host cows from nearby Ahimsa Goshala. The Goshala will be the first structure to be built in the VeV colony. The bulls and ox will be in a separate area of the village.
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."