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Dear Friends, The gardeners at the ISHA property in Wisconsin have also planted some ornamental, perennial shrubs, including one elderberry and two chokeberry bushes. Our elderberry variety is called “Adams Elder” (Sambucus canadenis “Adams”), and is excellent for pies and jam. Read more
Dear Friends, The next perennials planted in Ishwar’s dera garden were 30 Jersey Knight asparagus plants. Jersey Knight makes huge yields of big, tender, bright green spears. Asparagus is one of the first plants that emerges in the springtime. It’s Read more
Dear Friends, This year, the gardeners at Ishwar’s dera in Wisconsin are planting some perennial fruits and vegetables. Some of the earliest to go in were the blueberry bushes … probably because everyone loves fresh blueberries! A berry-loving Read more
Dear Friends, It’s time to prepare the garden at Ishwar’s dera land in Bruce, Wisconsin. A local farmer delivers a load of magnificent, rich, organic compost to the site. A large bale of hay is unloaded from Read more
Dear Friends, The first apple orchard has been planted on Ishwar’s Dera property in Bruce, Wisconsin! A team of volunteers gathered on a Sunday morning to prepare the holes and plant the trees. The potted apple trees Read more
Dear Friends, ISHA is delighted to announce the schedule for the 2019 summer volunteer (seva) opportunities at Ishwar’s construction project in Bruce, Wisconsin. Although much of the work will be focused on completion of the Maintenance Shed/Greenhouse, there will Read more
Dear Friends, In Wisconsin, spring is the time to plant apple orchards. Lucky for us, several local volunteers have decades of experience growing fruit trees in the area around Ishwar’s dera project at Bruce. Standard-size apple trees make Read more
Dear Friends, The first planting of the year in the ISHA Wisconsin dera garden was four rose bushes. Roses are one of the most beautiful, traditional, and fragrant flowers that can be planted in a garden. Our rose garden Read more
Dear Friends, As the 2019 seva season gets underway at Ishwar’s dera project in Wisconsin, there will be lots of things to move … including some very heavy things. Things like lumber, dirt, windows, gravel, trees, cement, sheds, rebar, Read more
Dear Friends, The variety of April weather at Ishwar’s project in Wisconsin has been amazing. Cold, warm, wet, cold again, snowy, warm again, rainy, cool, and now warming and drying. Here are some photos from the last week of Read more
Dear Friends, One of the tasks this week at Ishwar’s construction project in Wisconsin was to install four, large, sliding, clerestory windows above the greenhouse on the ISHA Maintenance Shed. These windows will allow light and air into the upper-level Read more
Dear Friends, Following the Bhandara Event, there has been a great burst of seva activity on Ishwar’s Dera construction project in Bruce, Wisconsin! As the 2019 work season opened on the Maintenance Shed & Greenhouse, dozens of volunteers Read more
Dear Friends, The snow has begun to melt at Ishwar’s construction site in Wisconsin. Here are a series of repeat photos of the ISHA Maintenance Shed/Green and garden area. The photos were taken from the same location over the last Read more
Dear Friends, It’s been an unusual winter at Ishwar’s construction project site in Bruce, Wisconsin. Record-breaking high temperatures, then record-breaking winter rains, then some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded, and finally, record-breaking snowfall. November and December were warmer Read more
Dear Friends, As Wisconsin slips into the early winter season, the blog turns to the pictures of local photographer Susanne Schroeder. Susanne has spent many years exploring the countryside in and around Ishwar’s dera site in Bruce, Wisconsin. Enjoy Read more
Dear Friends, Today’s blog features a holiday message from Ishwar: Dear Friends,I send you all my love and Great Master’s Blessings for this holiday season. I am looking forward to 2019 with great anticipation and excitement for it appears Read more
Dear Friends, Nearly 250 of Ishwar’s friends performed volunteer work (seva) at the ISHA construction site in Bruce, Wisconsin in 2018. Some of these sevadars spent weeks — and even months! — on ISHA’s summer projects. There were jobs suitable Read more
Dear Friends, The last construction project of the year on Ishwar’s building site in Wisconsin was to winterize the partially built Maintenance Shed & Greenhouse. This part of Wisconsin is renowned for its winter storms, and it’s not Read more
Dear Friends, As the building season in Wisconsin ended, volunteer workers had one last task to complete on Ishwar’s construction project. Now that the roof was on, the four sides of the Maintenance Shed had to be sealed for the Read more
Dear Friends, After the rain stopped, a handful of volunteers only had a few days to install the metal roof and seal the rest of the building in advance of the Wisconsin winter. The first job was to remove Read more