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.
Post Wildfire Priorities
- Rebuild fire-proof library in it's intended colony location
- Collect Vedic Books
- Print evacuation plan and maps with survival guide
- Trailer full of supplies and food that can be pulled by ox
- Fire safe structures and nourish forest with water lenses
Self Regulating Shelters and Cow Goshala
- earth insulated, passive solar heating
- underground + earth roof = fire proof
- solar and hydro powered
- walls coated with plaster and dung
- hemp straw and clay walls/insulation
- sparkless chulha replacing wood stoves and propane cooking
Campground for Volunteers
- management and security office
- common kitchen
- common solar shower
- tents available
- animal enclosures and special care for lost cows
Future Steps
- Start daily training camp for vedic living off grid
- Replace plastic greenhouse with walipini
- Replace mill with people/ox powered engine
- Print evacuation plan and maps with survival guide
- move seed bank underground
- build learning center: facility for workshops, classes, seminars
You can help by volunteering, fulfilling our wish list or investing in our development plan.
Project Updates
Underground Greenhouse
Hole dug by excavator. South wall of glass and north wall of logs/cob next. 10x10 foot cube in center with reciprocal roof over top to hold earth
colony fences (aka X-fences) have started - built from thinned trees in nearby over-grown forests.
Orchard Expansion
Orchard has berries, apple, pear, plum and apricot trees and berries, plus hazelnut and walnut trees.
Need to dig NE facing dug-out cave for cowshed, worker house with mass heater, storage shed, warm water
Volunteer Kitchen
Prasadam for the volunteers, interns and residents is required. A chulha is being built at Maharaj's cabin
Wood Mill
Bandsaw mill cuts 2 feet wide trees, up to 10 feet
Good for making 4by4 pillars, beams and boards.
We are laying the foundation for bringing about a gradual global social transformation through training education based on the ancient scientific principles and concepts of Sanatana Dharma.
