For the pleasure of their spiritual master, Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, in the 1980s some young and idealistic men and women in North America left their homes in the cities and headed for the countryside, a spiritual frontier where they could depend on the godly gifts of nature. After much searching, this small group found many acres of open fields, foothills, forests, three lakes and a creek, cradled in the rain shadow of British Columbia's Coastal Mountains.  Venables valley was once summer hunting grounds

We are seeking people to participate in daily building, farm and food preparation. Our mission is to manifest the vision of Varnasrama villages, as proposed by Srila Prabhupada and our Acharyas. 

We offer deeper insights into the fundamental values upheld in the Vedic culture, namely the importance of cows, farming and vedic knowledge.

Campground, outdoor kitchen & solar shower facilities are under construction.  Crowded trees from our forest are milled for ecovillage building materials. Our building

 

Off-grid homesteads spread across 10 kilometers featuring various spiritual, agrarian and conventional projects.

Human prosperity flourishes by natural gifts and not by gigantic industrial enterprises. The gigantic industrial enterprises are products of a godless civilization, and they cause the destruction of the noble aims of human life. The more we go on increasing such troublesome industries to squeeze out the vital energy of the human being, the more there will be unrest and dissatisfaction of the people in general.  Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.40 Goal for the community:…