Regarding the Rural Project in Ireland, a few properties being sold under 80,000 euro are being considered. Financing the project will be by donations.

Those interested in living and working on the property can send me a Private Message.
 

I was reading Fatherhood and Family from Angelus Press and it mentioned going back to the land.

Where can a family of 7 kids move from say NYC Suburbia to a good rural setting with the possibility of growing crops and some chickens and a Latin Mass nearby preferably SSPX?

 What parts of the US should be considered?

I live in Iowa on 13 and 1/2 acres - have Chickens - Turkeys - and I am thinking about pasturing  a steer next spring - If I get ambitious - maybe even a milk cow although you have to milk them 2 times a day EVERY DAY regardless of weather. And you get about 2 gallons of milk a day.  Do the math - thats a lot of milk.

There is a CMRI Church in Omaha and I believe a Latin Mass in Des Moines as well.  

One thing I don't understand about the back to the land talk is the idea of independence.  I've lived on an organic farm before and there were people constantly coming and going, it was like Grand Central Station. Animals are bought sold, and borrowed, deliveries are made to and from, it's extremely busy.  

You can't make money without community.

One thing I don't understand about the back to the land talk is the idea of independence.  I've lived on an organic farm before and there were people constantly coming and going, it was like Grand Central Station. Animals are bought sold, and borrowed, deliveries are made to and from, it's extremely busy.  

I  grew up (until I was in middle school) on a farm, and what you're describing is only necessary if the farm is a *business* and you're trying to maximize  *money*. We were not, it was mostly subsistence and we bartered with other local farmers for things we didn't produce. There was a man down the road names Mr. Farmer (real name) and he didn't have chickens, but he had melons, grew mustard and collard greens and (I'm assuming) tobacco for cash.  He had goats and rabbits  as well.

We would bring him a pail of eggs or two for things, sometime I was sent by myself with the eggs (I didn't figure out until later that if I put the eggs, half each into *2* pails, then I could ride my bike and hang the pails on the handles) and  return with whatever they worked out.

Later we got goats of our own and had milk from them, and had weed abatement.

Anyway,  there  was a little store down the road and  they  had things like cheese, sugar,   flour, candy,...stuff we didn't produce. We'd bring eggs or my grandma's canned peaches, rhubarb, or whatever and he'd give us credit. The owner had a composition book that he kept track of things in. We'd get whatever, pay the difference (or he'd record a credit) and go home. We weren't perfectly self-sufficient, but it was pretty close. We only really used cash for clothes, school supplies/erasers/pencils, eating out (rarely) or 'luxuries' like a coke or something we didn't make, or to see a movie occasionally (I seem to remember half a dozen movies up to the age of 12, that says it was a pretty rare event, about every other year on  average. Somehow I talked my uncle into letting me see Ghostbusters).

Both my grandparents grew up on farms, and they just knew how to do everything, and somehow from the process of feeding and caring for animals and planting and helping dig a well, or running irrigation pipe from a spring, I just learned too.

There's a lot of things I "just know" and when a friend or my  wife asks  me how I know about incubating  eggs for  chicks, or I mention an animal disease or how pigs behave (and it isn't like Babe) and they ask  how I know I just think "I dunno, I've just known that stuff as long as I can remember"