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Join our Daily Training Camp for Vedic Living Off-grid to experience the land based, cow centered lifestyle. 

Strengthen your confidence, your body, and your faith while building a self-sufficient community for present and future generations.

Establishing Vedic Economics

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.

The formula for Vedic Education is both academic-based (for Brahmanas and Kshatriyas) and apprenticeship-based (for Vaisyas and Sudras).  The formula for Vedic Economy is based on krishi, natural agriculture and go rakshya, cow protection.  Failure to adopt both will lead to disintegration of Vedic village culture and Vedic lifestyle.

Goshala & Nandishala

Maharaj and Revati2025 cow hug cowshed vastu pithouse pithouse goshala spa/stanchion stalls chulha room

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. 

foundation

Goshala Building Features

Daily Training Camp for Vedic Living Off-grid

Proposed building style Milling logs for the Vedic Education Center Clearing land for the Vedic Education Center

Our Daily 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.

Food Supply for Eco Village

Cherry growing in Co-op garden Millet growing in greenhouse Hummingbird visits the greenhouse Bridge to Co-op garden

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.

Srila Prabhupada on Varnāśrama

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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."

“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]

"It may be an ideal village where the residents will have plain living and high thinking. For plain living we must have sufficient land for raising crops and pasturing grounds for the cows. If there is sufficient grains and production of milk, then the whole economic problem is solved." [Montreal 14 June 1968]

What is generally blocking or hampering the development of good relationships among devotees is the Ahankara or false ego. We must look towards the spiritual master for the solution to all our relationship problems. 

Live with Purpose. Serve with Devotion. 

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