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ECO-Vrindaban Board Meeting Minutes 09/15/2019 Mission Statement: ECO-Vrindaban promotes cow protection, local agriculture, and above all, loving Krishna, as envisioned by Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON New Vrindaban’s Founder-Acharya. Participating Directors: Anuttama, Chaitanya Mangala, Jamuna Jivani (board secretary), Makara (chair), Olivia (partial), Ranaka, and Vraja. Participating Advisors: Allegra, Kripamaya (partial attendance).

Back to Godhead Magazine, January/February 2018 issue New Vrindaban: An Overview in Honor of Its 50th Anniversary By Satyaraja Dasa Archival Research by Chaitanya Mangala Dasa With the successful worldwide celebration of ISKCON’s fiftieth anniversary in 2016, another semicentennial event naturally follows in its wake: commemoration of the founding of New Vrindaban in 1968, two […]

By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON New Vrindaban Communications ECO-Vrindaban (ECO-V) – which strives to fulfill Srila Prabhupada’s mandates for simple living and cow-protection at New Vrindaban in West Virginia, USA – is on the lookout for a new construction and maintenance person for its ongoing operations. The ideal candidate would be a journeyman level carpenter […]

Written by Madhava Smullen. Archival Research by Chaitanya Mangala. New Vrindaban, August 31st, 1972 – Just as he had three years prior in 1969, Srila Prabhupada arrived at New Vrindaban in a black Lincoln Continental, winding down the country road towards the excited group of waiting devotees. But this time, the group was much larger, […]

The fall season has come and gone quickly this year in the garden. Many projects were completed in the Teaching Garden and the Garden of Seven Gates. An early frost drove our attentions into our new high tunnel for winter greens and building a new rose garden to be planted in the spring.   Throughout […]

New Vrindaban’s Transcendental Throwback Thursday – 04/17/14. Each week we highlight an earlier era of ISKCON New Vrindaban. This digital photo is a bit fuzzy and it’s challenging, but not impossible, to identify people in it. This week’s challenge:  We are hoping someone familiar with the photo can share some history as well as the names […]

ISCOWP recently rescued a beautiful Holstein Cow from going to the slaughterhouse. She is not even 4 years old and was going to be slaughtered because she could not get pregnant again. She is settled in now and is giving about 3 gallons of milk daily, much more than the ISCOWP crew can use. We […]

Click the link to read the June 2013 newsletter from our friends and neighbors at ISCOWP. Visit and “like” the ISCOWP Facebook Page!

  Monthly Meeting of the Boards of Directors for ISKCON New Vrindaban & ECOV – June 20th, 2013. Present from INV: Jaya Krsna, Dayavira, Chaitanya Mangala, Jamuna, Gopisa, HH Varsana Swami (Emeritus) Present from ECOV: Anuttama, Madhava Gosh, Kripamaya, Chaitanya Mangala, INV Secretary: Laxmi Honest Item 1: Increasing Transparency Chaitanya Mangala proposed that the joint […]

ECOV Board Meeting Minutes – June 15th, 2013 Mission Statement: ECOV (Earth, Cows, Opportunities & Villages) is dedicated to cow protection, sustainable agriculture, self-sufficiency and simple living — all centered around loving service to Sri Krishna, as envisioned by the ISKCON New Vrindaban Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Participating Members of the […]