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Dear Friends and Supporters,
After a brief lull in our efforts to raise funds for the New Revolutionary Dairy, we are beginning a fresh drive - there is still much to do as we are presently just under the £20,000 mark (less than we would have liked!). Jesica Lewitt, a London artist inspired by our work, had the idea of hosting an exhibition to raise funds. Here she is making sketches of one of our boys. If you have an innovative idea to help raise funds, please do let us know. Thank you once again to all those who have come forward to support us. Our new farm manager/ ox-driver has now arrived and we will soon begin training our oxen, read more about him below. We have also had very positive coverage on BBC East Midlands News, which has also generated much local interest. The Ahimsa Team Ahimsa & Selected News
Expert ox-driver from Hungary joins the Ahimsa herdThe Ahimsa Dairy is delighted to welcome our new farm manager Govindananda Das, a European expert in working with bulls Govinda, aged 39, worked on a large ox-working farm in Hungary for 15 years where he trained countless long-horned Hungarian Grey and Tirolean bulls to do agricultural jobs. He is also experienced in hand-milking, and will be using his skills on the Ahimsa cows as we move from using machinery to traditional methods. Govinda will be based at our farm in Leicester and his first task will be to get our older boys, who have been enjoying a life of leisure, to go to work. They will be yoked together in pairs, trained to respond to basic commands and begin to do agricultural jobs around the farm such as ploughing. Govinda, who is married, with two young sons, says to do this work is in ‘his nature,’ although he notes his grandfather was an ambassador and the rest of his family are computer technicians from the city.
Ahimsa Director, Sanjay Tanna said :
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