New Nandagram, Simple Living and High Thinking
We decided to live our lives based on the principles of simple living and high thinking. By protecting cows and gaining our necessities through the bounty of the Earth, we have had many synchronicities, realizations and experiences. Our channel is an effort to share our knowledge.
Billy and I (Anuttama) moved to New Nandagram (Glenoma) 7 years ago and we’ve been endeavoring to live the “simple living, high thinking” lifestyle that our spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada prescribed for us. A big part of that lifestyle is protecting cows and treating them as valuable members of the community. We feel that our efforts have been rewarded by Krsna: we found out, after buying our property here, that we had unknowingly also bought an additional 9 acre pasture with another barn in addition to the 3 barns on the main property. Krsna is also gradually sending us good devotee association–something we really need.
We have been learning all aspects of a self reliant lifestyle including bee keeping, growing and processing grain, making oil, making medicine, preserving the harvest and of course home dairying including cheese making. We have been teaching our skills, too as well as introducing our neighbors to Krsna consciousness.
Although it is somewhat scary to breed a cow, knowing that we have to be responsible for the resulting calf for its entire life, we are doing it anyway, without the support of a large community, because we feel that this project is so important that Krsna will send us the necessary help and support.
Right now it is our policy to breed one cow every 2 years. That way we have milk and dairy products–albeit at a significantly reduced quantity towards the end of the 2 years. We are able to send large rounds of cheese to people who support our efforts and also share dairy products with friends who visit the farm. Fortunately I really enjoy milking and take the opportunity to sing the Samsara prayers or the Gaura Arotik song while I’m milking without having an overly critical audience. ..although maybe there is a reason that I’ve had to tie Kalindi’s tail to avoid being thwapped in the face…
Implementing this simple living, high thinking lifestyle is so important that Srila Prabhupada said that it is the second half of his mission. Please help make his vision for this lifestyle a reality by supporting our efforts!
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Our website: https://newnandagramcowprotection.wordpress.com/
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e-mail: anuttamadd@gmail.com
Phone: 360-496-0058
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