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