New Vrindaban Brijabasi Spirit

   Mother Ganga has this habit of kicking, so you will note that her legs are temporarly being tied. More pics of the milking process at http://www.newvrindaban.com/gallery/main.php   go to “Departments” then “Cow Protection”

More pictures of these cute, playful new residents at the “Gallery” on http://www.newvrindaban.com , go to Departments then Cow Protection

Here are the two bull calves, age 30 hours.

This morning during mangala arati, our two new cows came fresh. Both Ganga and Tulasi (nee Belle and Lilly) had bull calves at about the same time. They aren’t named yet. Pictures to follow tomorrow. All is well.

CALCUTTA’s Telegraph has got hold of an answer paper of a candidate at the recent UPSC examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow: “The cow is a successful animal. Also he is quadrupud, and because he is female, he give milk, but will do so when he is got child. He […]

My idea of developing New Vrindaban is to create an atmosphere of spiritual life where people in bona fide order of social division, namely, Brahmacaris, Grhasthas, Vanaprastha, Sannyasis, or specifically Brahmacaris and Sannyasis, and Vanaprasthas, will live there independently, completely depending on agricultural produce and milk from the cows. The life should be simplified without […]

submitted by Tapapunjah (from an email exchange) Priyavrata Prabhu, Please accept my obeisances. Jai Srila Prabhupada! Thank you for taking the time to visit me in the garden. I am lamenting that I didn’t get to spend more time with you. Knitting together the connection between the distribution of prasadam and the supply of “purified […]

Harvesting News with a Slant by Tapapunjah Almost two months past the frost free date—normally October 15th—New Vrindaban’s core community growing sites are still pumping out veggies galore. In the past two weeks, 20 bushels of Swiss chard and 6 bushels of red beets have been lugged down from the Garden of Seven Gates, our […]

Rutabaga Renaissance: Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead! Recipes For Sustainable Living Before you read any further, let’s agree on three truths. The first truism is that Krsna loves the whole of His creation—that is, all His parts and parcels, vegetable species included. The second truism is that we neophytes must see all other life […]

Namo brahmanya devaya go brahmana hitaya ca Jagat hitaya krsnaya govindaya namo namah. My Lord, You are the well-wisher of the cows and the brahmanas, and You are the well-wisher of the entire human society and world. The purport is that special mention is given in that prayer for the protection of the cows and […]