This was a ground breaking year at VēV.  With clear instructions to build a goshala, we cleaned up our burned forest, built roads and started building a pit house to shelter cows and cow protectors.   A pond at the top of the dry creek was built to store water. Burned trees felled during road building will be used for goshala construction and firewood.

The ground is now frozen, the focus on cutting and peeling the logs needed for construction, clearing land in preparation for fencing and allowing some grass to start growing.

Our Green building efforts are expanding our living facility with chulha mass heaters, cob ovens, wattle and daub, clay slip straw walls, natural plasters, water catchment, living roofs, thatch, mud floors, woodworking, and aligning with principles of Vastu.

In the forest we collect firewood, cutting trees, building berms to retain moisture, mill for building materials.  In the garden we plow, plant, water, weed, harvesting, seed save and dry fruit and greens

We need your help!

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, 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.