New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental Throwback Thursday – 07/31/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This week’s challenge: Though the photo is a bit blurry, those familiar with New Vrindaban oxen programs, both in the 1970s and 2014, should be able to recognize the person driving the ox cart. Can you identify him? […]

Prosperity of the Earth Culture By Varsana Swami July 2014 In healthy families and communities, both male and female are valued equally. A flourishing child’s psyche is guided and protected by the father figure, while the mother figure nurtures growth and development. Without such a stable structure, children perceive a hostile world (lack of feminine […]

    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.  […]

Srila Prabhupada “Has Many Ideas for New Vrindaban” and Hopes to “Develop Many New Vrindabans” – March 1969. From a series of letters written by Srila Prabhupada outlining his vision for New Vrindaban. Thanks to Vanipedia for the source material. ———————————————————————- March 30, 1969 My Dear Satyabhama, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated […]

ECO-Vrindaban Board Meeting Minutes – 06/15/14. Mission Statement: ECO-Vrindaban promotes a simple, sustainable lifestyle centered on the care and protection of cows, local food production and the loving service of Lord Krishna, as envisioned by Srila Prabhupada, the Founder-Acharya of ISKCON New Vrindaban. Participating Members of the ECOV Board of Directors: Chaitanya Mangala, Madhava Gosh, […]

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. […]

Srila Prabhupada Repeats His “Simple Living, High Thinking” Message for a New Vrindaban Resident – August 1974. From a series of letters written by Srila Prabhupada outlining his vision for New Vrindaban. Thanks to Vanipedia for the source material. ———————————————————————- August 19, 1974 New Vrindaban My dear Madhukara das, Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter […]

Throughout the winter in New Vrindaban, four new bull calves have joined the herd.   On Christmas Eve Priya Darshana aka “Priya D”was born to Asha & Dharma. Priya D is a sweet, innocent & goofy calf. He LOVES to have his head scratched endlessly & is known to lick faces & chew on arms.  […]

  Over the past two weeks the garden has been transformed.  All of our early season crops and flowers have been planted. A few new items include: 1000 Beauregard Sweet Potatoes 3 varieties of bush green beans 2 varieties of pole beans radishes watermelons a small field of giant golden amaranth sunflowers 75 strawberries 50 […]

This week in the garden the weather has shown us just how unpredictable May weather can be, in a few days we went from over 80 degrees to a light frost. Many of our more sensitive plants were covered the last two nights. If you are unable to cover your plants at night often they […]