Reports

Our festivals are seasonal gatherings dedicated to projects that benefit from many helping hands. Attend as many as you can, or join our ongoing  Daily Training Camp for Vedic Living Off-grid 

Be part of manifesting a self-reliant spiritual community with energy and food sovereignty.  Immerse yourself in sustainable practices within a divine system that harmonizes spiritual progress with practical living. 

Experience village life, a taste of tradition, and a feel for the future.

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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!

We are offering a Daily Training Camp for Vedic Living Off-grid. Learn to build, farm and advance our food preparation/preservation program.   Farming, stewarding the forest, milling lumber, building infrastructure and fire wood-based activities are ongoing.   Garden harvested veggies are cooked on chulha stoves fuelled by cow dung & tree branches.

We need people to expand the eco village and build guest facilities.  Help most wanted in these roles: Cook, Gardener, Carpenter, Forestry, Milling, Campground Host.  Help Wanted Page

This summer burned trees will be milled for building a goshala and diversion berms above the Eco Village. Building sites will be cleared of trees and levelled.  The entire forest in the 4 acre eco village "colony" was burned.   The only forest in VēV that didn't burn was the campground.  This area will be levelled and a 10 by 10 foot cube constructed with a chulha to provide bathing water and cooking facility for campers.

Join our efforts to build a Vedic Eco Village and manifest a self-reliant spiritual community with food sovereignty.  Farming, stewarding the forest, milling lumber, building infrastructure, farm planning and fire wood-based activities are ongoing daily.   Chulha stoves are fuelled by cow dung & wood chopped by kids.  Help manifest key projects of the VēV master plan.

Our Dharma Discovery program for kids merges with our Daily Training Camp for Vedic Living Off-grid 

We are researching and testing the best way of using deeply burned trees either for firewood or building materials.

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. 

A wildfire which measured over 200 square kilometres burned more than 20 structures in the Venables Valley, including at least six homes.  Vedic Eco Village homes were untouched, but the library and books were destroyed.  The Saranagati temple, goshala, and school are ok.

The fire remained out of control for a week in valley.  Hot and dry conditions coupled with gusty winds fuelled erratic and aggressive behaviour on the fire.  200 firefighters fought this blaze.

Everyone including cows were evacuated. The fire then threatened the ranch where the cows were evacuated to, so cows were relocated to a very nice pasture in the mountains near Kamloops.

The next morning, the cows escaped their pasture and started running down the road, hoping to arrive back at their goshala in Saranagati (150km away). We followed them and were able to corral the cows into a horse pasture a mile down the road.  The cows were then relocated again to a good barn with lots of hay. 

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.

Our weekly Dharma Discovery gives children deeper insights into the fundamental values upheld in the Vedic culture, namely the importance of cows, farming and natural building/crafts.  We are starting plants in our greenhouse while harvesting lettuce & spinach greens.

Saranagati Village continues to attract pilgrims to their temple, goshala and pristine mountain landscape.  Community & temple leaders are overwhelmed by the crowds, as they do not provide guest accommodations, food or facilities.  Vedic Eco Village is working hard to increase our capacity to host pilgrims.