Category: ISHA Dera Blog

Dear Friends, Exciting News!  During the last year, volunteers have worked to design an affordable building that can serve as a gathering place for Ishwar’s friends from all over the world. ISHA has signed a contract with an architectural firm to develop Read more

Dear Friends, Winter weather has finally arrived at Ishwar’s dera in northern Wisconsin. In a typical year, a killing frost can be expected in mid-September. However, this year, September visitors enjoyed the most incredible weather, with sunny days in the Read more

Dear Friends,   Last weekend, with an abundance of love and devotion, eager volunteers harvested prashad potatoes from Ishwar’s dera garden in Bruce, Wisconsin.     The potato-plucking party was ably assisted by “Shanti” the dera puppy, who has a nose Read more

Dear Friends,   As the gardening season winds down at Ishwar’s dera garden in Bruce, Wisconsin, volunteers are busily harvesting, storing, and eating the delicious bounty of organic prashad. By any standards, the 2021 garden was miraculously productive. Here are Read more

Dear Friends,   Great news!  The ISHA Dera Building Committee has completed a concept design for the Meeting Hall at Ishwar’s dera, and will soon be hiring a Wisconsin “design and build” company to develop the final detailed drawings.   In Read more

Dear Friends, It’s truly magical!   Ishwar’s prashad garden at the ISHA dera in Wisconsin is thriving beyond all expectations. In eight short weeks, the garden has grown from nothing to a dazzling outburst of delectable vegetables. Here’s the garden Read more

Dear Friends,   As you may know, before Ishwar left his physical body, he established a new ISHA Dera Building Committee, which he authorized to have complete responsibility for building Dera Baba Sawan Singh on the ISHA lands in Bruce, Read more

Dear Friends,   Ishwar’s garden of prashad is planted!  During the long Memorial Day weekend, a devoted team of vegetable-loving volunteers gathered at the dera site in Wisconsin to plant the nearly 10,000 square foot garden.  Last fall, large plastic Read more

Dear Friends,   As the ground thawed at the ISHA dera in northern Wisconsin, sevadars were busily planning Ishwar’s 2021 prashad garden.   This year, 72 vegetable varieties, 9 flower varieties, and 9 different herbs were carefully selected for suitability Read more

Dear Friends,   ISHA is pleased to announce the schedule for the 2021 summer volunteer (seva) opportunities at Ishwar Ji’s dera project in Bruce, Wisconsin.   “I want every satsangi, even the poorest of the poor, to be given the Read more

Dear Friends,   This is the final installment showcasing the marvelous 2020 ISHA garden at Ishwar’s dera project in Wisconsin.   Our green-thumbed volunteers planted six varieties of squash, one kind of pumpkin, and 4 types of potatoes.   Delicata; Read more

Dear Friends, The volunteer gardeners at the ISHA dera site in Wisconsin cultivated three varieties of corn and eight varieties of tomatoes.  All of which were grown without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides.   Sweet Corn varieties: Bodacious; Montauk; Temptress Tomato Read more

Dear Friends,   The 2020 ISHA garden was such a great success that the kitchen sevadars were able to serve fresh vegetables to volunteers for lunch nearly every day.   When Ishwar Ji visited the dera site — where he Read more

Dear Friends,   In any garden, some of the earliest veggies to ripen are the salad greens. The ISHA garden in Wisconsin was no exception, and starting in early June, the volunteers enjoyed a cascade of fresh, organic salad featuring Read more

Dear Friends,   Ishwar’s 2020 dera garden was a grand (and delicious) success!   Here’s a lofty view of the garden in July, with all of the vegetables flourishing. But the local horticultural volunteers put in a lot of work Read more

Dear Friends,   During the fall of 2019 and the spring of 2020, the local volunteers performed a major upgrade on the dera garden in Wisconsin. The size of the garden remained unchanged, but the level of the garden surface Read more

Dear Friends,   Even though ISHA canceled the public programs at the dera property due to coronavirus concerns, the local volunteers have continued to maintain the property and complete some small projects. In the spring, they planted groves of trees Read more

Dear Friends,   ISHA is happy to announce that the Construction Chronicles Blog has safely emerged from lockdown, and will now begin to catch you up on our 2020 activities at Ishwar’s dera project in Bruce, Wisconsin.   For the Read more

Dear Friends, ISHA is pleased to announce the schedule for the 2020 summer volunteer (seva) opportunities at Ishwar’s dera project in Bruce, Wisconsin. Here are Ishwar’s words on this seva: “Hello Friends, Great Master said — and I agree with Read more

Dear Friends, As another seva season has ended at Ishwar’s dera project in Bruce, Wisconsin, some of the volunteers have chosen to share their seva experiences. Here are their words. “To do seva at the dera in Bruce is a Read more