Instead of the insidious stream of new technologies, we are satisfied with traditional methods of living. We are striving for self sufficiency to fulfill the material and spiritual needs of our community and future generations. Rediscover the sacred art of living not just for survival, but for Krishna's pleasure. Join our daily building, farm, food preparation/preservation and cow care.   Live with Purpose. Serve with Devotion.

Goshala and Cow Barn

Maharaj and Revati2025 cowshed vastu cow hug goshala

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.

The cow shed will be a structure of wood and cob built into a NE facing dug-out slope. Inside are four 10 foot by 10 foot wood cube structure: 2 shelter cows, the others 2 are for worker and tools. The goshala entrance faces North East with south windows for optimal winter sun.

Village Manifestations 2025

kids mill 2025

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.

We are expanding our Dharma Discovery for kids program to a Saturday event where we clean up the slash piles left behind from clear cuts of the burned forest.  With the help of local kids, we are clearing the slash piles blocking roads and pathways.  There are no logs worth milling in slash piles, but there are lots of burned standing dead trees worth milling.  We are researching and testing the best way of using deeply burned trees either for firewood or building materials.

Passive Construction for a Sustainable Future

cob oven

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. 

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, Strawberry, Cabbage, Green Beans, Zucchini, Radish, Fennel, 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. 

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.