After years of pioneering a Krsna conscious, self sufficiency homestead lifestyle we would like to share our experience to give today’s youth a head start.
Come train with us!
Want to know if you or your adolescent has a future on a Krsna conscious farm of their own? We suggest a day trip, a weekend or a weeklong stay or longer term apprenticeship at the farm with us!
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Come visit us on a Friday for our evening of self discovery, arrive early to meet or milk the cows or come on a weekend day that suits your schedule, take part in some of the seasonal activities in the garden, pasture or barn and stay for some chanting and a delicious meal.
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(Accommodations permitting)
Spend the weekend or a week to get a more complete experience of the daily cycle of events on the farm. Take part in milking, cow care, and seasonal bull work, gardening and food processing. Take part in our morning and evening bhakti yoga home program and hear from the ancient Krsna conscious texts.
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(Accommodations permitting)
Get the full farm life experience staying with us for a season or more. On top of the full range of farm activities, take part in farmers’ markets and explore with us the business opportunities that living on a farm can afford you. Get a deep immersion into the culture and science of Krsna consciousness.
Ready for the next step! Accommodations!
To host students for weekend or weeklong stays or even longer apprenticeships, accommodations are needed.
Varnasrama College
Our self-sufficiency agriculture and cow protection training program is a cornerstone of a broader vision that also incorporates training for saintly teachers of society and martially spirited administrative men. Adolescents and young adults will be given the opportunity to develop meaningful occupations tailored to their specific natures all the while being prepared for spiritual development through life’s critical stages.
Room to Grow
While most of our progress has been achieved in the matter of self-sufficiency agriculture and cow protection, programs for training saintly teachers and martially spirited administrative men are already under way.
We hope that with your support and through collaboration with like-minded partners we can complete the realisation of a full-fledged training institution and self-sufficient model village as conceived by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Srila Prabhupada!
It takes a village, after all!
To achieve a viable alternative to the chaotic, present day society, the creation of model villages centred on spiritual development and harmony between men and women of distinct occupations and natures demonstrating ideal life, not idle life, is of utmost importance. We suggest it can be achieved through these farm-based training center in three phases.
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Time-tested methods of training in four principal occupational fields that are accessible to any income level are researched and applied in practice. Opportunities for respectable livelihoods are discovered and the simplest and most dignified living standards are developed to complement each occupation.
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As practices are perfected, learning experiences are made available for eager participants. Accommodations to facilitate students are built. Short term training camps and long term apprenticeships are established. Guidance in earning a livelihood through newly acquired skills is given.
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As candidates become expert and independent in their respective fields of work, and their distinctive characters are refined, the opportunity for peaceful cooperation between individuals is manifest and a happy, healthy societal body is constituted in the form of a small village. With a collective aim to please the Supreme Lord, Sri Krsna, everyone is set on an accelerated path back home, back to Godhead.
