#125 – November 29, 2020 – Corn & Tomatoes Prashad!

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

#124 – November 25, 2020 – Veggie prashad!

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

#123 – November 17, 2020 – Salad Seva!

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

#122 – November 8, 2020 – Seeds and Seedlings!

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

#119 – July 21, 2020 – Seva During a Pandemic!

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

#117 – December 22, 2019 – Sevadars Speak!

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

#113 – November 6, 2019 – The Dera, From Above!

Dear Friends,   Recently, visitors to Ishwar’s dera project took aerial photos of this beautiful part of northern Wisconsin.   A view to the north from over the construction site. The lovely Chippewa River meanders around forests and farms for Read more

#111 – October 23, 2019 – Mitti Seva Volunteers!

Dear Friends, Everyone who joined Ishwar at the Mitti Seva Day in Wisconsin found some suitable service work to perform on the ISHA land. 240 people working together, with the single goal of expressing their Love and Devotion, was a beautiful Read more

#110 – October 15, 2019 – Mitti Seva 2019!

Dear Friends, For many years, Ishwar has hosted an annual “mitti seva” event at the future ISHA dera site in Wisconsin. Ishwar has modeled this mitti seva after Great Master Baba Sawan Singh’s construction work in India, where everyone was offered the Read more

#108 – September 4, 2019 – Garage Doors!

Dear Friends,   One of ISHA’s goals this year is to have the Maintenance Shed “dried in,” meaning that the roof and walls and all of the doors and windows are installed, so that anything inside the shed is protected Read more

#107 – September 3, 2019 – Fresh Water!

Dear Friends, We now have fresh, clean water at the ISHA Greenhouse, Garden, and Maintenance Shed in Bruce, Wisconsin!   The water well was drilled in early July, and now the water lines have been buried and the pump has Read more