Author Topic: Back to the land movement websiteforum (Read 713 times)

Thursday · « **on:** May 07, 2013, 08:36:40 AM »

The website is here
http://www.thecatholiclandmovement.org/

The forum is here
http://catholichomesteadingmovement.freeforums.org/

One of the website owner's blogs...

Moving Forward with a New Catholic Land Movement
Despite my recent lack of posting on here I would like to assure all of the followers and supporters of the New Catholic Land Movement that we have things in the works. It has now been over five years since I set off on this journey back to the land. I've been writing here for over four. Now, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, we are seeing these ideas and hopes and dreams come to fruition. We are working toward building real Catholic community here on the plains of KS. We are working toward making the NCLM a non-profit so that we can apply for grants and hopefully get the money needed to truly assist families in getting back to the land. In the future we hope to be able to train several families at a time and provide them with a wage, housing, and food. We'll see what God does with all of this.

Our once fledgling farm is growing by leaps and bounds as we introduce a new family to the farming life this year. My brother-in-law is also working for us this season. The weather is wet and cold, and it is quite a change from last year. I have gathered a group of fellow men who want to pursue and promote the Catholic rural ideal. Hopefully in time we will have a network of Catholic farms across the country. If you are a Catholic farmer and would like to be on a list of NCLM farms then please contact me with your contact info. We are working on a new website, and this old blog will then be put in the archives. I have hope for the future of the NCLM. A conversation with one of the men mentioned above this morning reinvigorated my desire to write here and keep the dream alive. We will be looking for supporters of many kinds in the near future (spiritual, financial, agricultural). Please contact me if you'd like to support us in this. I receive several emails a week from people who want to farm, but can't figure out how to get on the land. The NCLM can be that link.

So please note that while I am absent on here, there is much going on. You try to have energy to blog after planting 14,000 onion plants! :) I hope to be on here more again. Keep up your prayers for the success of our endeavors.

Incredulous · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2013, 05:04:11 PM »

By Father Denis Fahey

Explores the connection between the erroneous philosophies of Descartes and Locke, and the evils we deplore in regard to food, health, farming and family life. Locke's liberalism, by erecting each section of human activity into a separate domain with its own autonomous end and completely independent of the final end of man as a member of Christ, has resulted in the domination of society by those who create and manipulate money, and in the disintegration of the organic unity of society based ultimately on membership of Our Lord's Mystical Body.

Softcover, 211 pages, Imprimatur.

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Thursday · « **Reply #2 on:** May 07, 2013, 06:07:20 PM »

I have that book. Fr. Fahey was light years ahead of these experts coming out now and telling people to go organic. There is a book called the End of Food that gets into the amount of nutrients in various fruits and vegetables now compared to 50 years ago. He uses data from the US Department of Agriculture but I learned from Fr. Fahey's book that the depletion of the soil and food had started before the 1950s.

Renzo · « **Reply #3 on:** May 07, 2013, 11:17:25 PM »

Factory farming does seem to have gone too far. I notice food doesn't taste as good as it used too. Eggs have gotten to have a fishy taste. Red delicious apples are more often than not, non-delicious. Roma tomatoes seem to have improved lately, but used to seem bland to the point of seeming fake. And grapes have lost so much of their flavor and juiciness. It's my impression that a lot of that is a result of trying to develop produce that will last longer on the shelves, but it seems like they go too far. Also, the fishy taste in eggs is just disgusting. I guess that must have something to do with the price of chicken feed, but again that seems like they take it too far.

Frances · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2013, 03:17:15 AM »

Fishy tasting eggs result from feed made of animal scraps, antibiotics and the fact that most are several weeks old before you purchase them from the refrigerator rack in the store.

Buy oganically raised, free range chichen eggs. Eat them the day they were layed or save the old ones for baking.,

You might try raising your own chickens.

Of course, if you live in a city, this won't be possible.