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New Vrindaban Celebrates 4th Pushpa Abhishek Flower Bathing Ceremony


Quickly becoming a favorite New Vrindaban festival, the Fourth Annual Pushpa Abhishek will be celebrated Sat. July 26, 2014. Their Lordships, Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra will be showered with thousands of fragrant flower petals of all colors and descriptions in the evening, accompanied by ecstatic Hare Krsna kirtan. Please join us if you’d like. […]

Transitioning Palace of Gold Rose Garden at New Vrindaban to Sustainability


Paul Zimmerman, an expert rosarian who has been hired by the ECOV Board of New Vrindaban to help switch the Prabhupada’s Palace Rose Garden to an organic, sustainable garden, is keeping a blog on this project.  We published an initial article on the topic on the New Vrindaban website in June of 2014, entitled “Prabhupada’s […]

Jagannath Rathayatra 2014 @ New vrindaban


Parade begins at 11:00 am on McCrearys Ridge RoadOne Mile before the Palace of Gold.

New Vrindaban’s Jagannatha Ratha Yatra Coming!


This Sat. July 19, starting at 11:00 AM in front of Rupanuga and Vani’s house, the New Vrindaban Country Ratha Yatra Parade will begin! Bring your offerings of sweets for Their Lordships by 10:30 AM, to be offered  right at the cart along the route. And, as They do every year as a special added feature, […]

New Vrindaban’s Old Log Cabin and the Brick House


The Old Log Cabin  and The Brick House The New Vrindaban Advocacy Sanga met with Jaya Krsna prabhu on Tues. July 5, 2014.  One of the topics that came up was the recent removal of the old log cabin that used to sit just off the road across from Srila Prabhupada’s Palace of gold.  It […]

Summer Harvest from the New Vrindaban Gardens


    The last few weeks have been VERY busy in the gardens. We have had many new volunteers.  A family from Maryland came to work and camp in the garden.  Currently we have two volunteers from WWOOF (world wide opportunities on organic farms) that have been helping with our abundant harvest of green beans.  […]

Upcoming New Vrindaban Summer Festivals


Spiritual Fun Coming Up This Summer in New Vrindaban: Two Festivals and A Seminar: 1.  Lord Jagannatha’s Ratha Yatra/Festival of the Chariots on Sat. July 19, 2014. 2.  Then, the 4th Annual Pushpa Abhishek on Sat. July 26, 2014. 3.  On Pushpa Abhishek  weekend July 26/27, our esteemed guest His Grace Gauranga prabhu from ISKCON […]

Lord Jagannath Snan Yatra @ New vrindaban


On this day, Jagannatha, Baladeva, and Subhadra allow Themselves to be bathed by all following the original tradition of worship at Jagannatha Puri. Our devotees as well as hundreds of local people enthusiastically assemble at the Jagannatha temple to perform abhisheka with Ganges water, milk, etc. This bathing goes on for a few hours in […]

New Vrindaban Garden Manager Takes Step Closer to Sustainable Vision


New Vrindaban Garden Manager Takes Step Closer to Sustainable Vision By Madhava Smullen Back when she started visiting New Vrindaban at age sixteen, admiring the Rose Gardens at Prabhupada’s Palace and thinking it would be her dream job to work there, Kacey Orr could never have predicted how all the pieces would fall into place. […]

New Vrindaban Hosts Snana Yatra Bathing Ceremony of the Lord Sat. July 5


Everyone is invited to Bathe Their Lordships Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra devi At Their Snana Yatra Sat. July 5, 2014 10:30 AM in front of RVC temple If you would like to come early to help do seva, you are welcomed.