• Gardening, seed saving, hand tools.
• Scything & hay making
• Chickens, bees, sheep & other livestock care
• Pruning & grafting fruit trees.
• Canning. Bread making.
• Building Catholic communities
• Homeschooling
• Traditional Latin Mass at Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine on Sunday, August 14th

Also there are probably Catholic homesteaders who are overwhelmed or want to expand to more animals and crops but can't manage it.

Perhaps they would allow a family to park a trailer home on their land in exchange for labor.

Of course if somebody were to make this agreement they would want a written contract.  It wouldn't need to be fancy lawyer jargon but clearly written and signed with the agreement it can be renegotiated and amended at times.

There should be a network for Catholic homesteaders if there isn't one already.

Homesteaders could also set up barter agreements where one family does dairy, another does pigs, another does vegetables etc.

I have an "office" job, but I also have land that I cultivate and from which I obtain almonds, tangerines, grapes, olives, onions, melons and barbary figs. I get eggs from a neighbor.

It's enough to work Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Can be combined with normal job.

I also collect rainwater through a... cistern?  It's like this:




But mine is bigger.

The field is about half an hour's drive from my house more or less.

But I don't see it viable to live of the field. They pay very little and you need large tracts of land with machinery for it.

Also you still depend on being in the system to sell and buy things, when the time comes they can cut you off, and also the police can come at any time if you are out of the system.

This can serve to survive if there is a famine or they don't let me buy food, but if there is an open persecution I won't escape martyrdom

I have an "office" job, but I also have land that I cultivate and from which I obtain almonds, tangerines, grapes, olives, onions, melons and barbary figs. I get eggs from a neighbor.

It's enough to work Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Can be combined with normal job.

I also collect rainwater through a... cistern?  It's like this:




But mine is bigger.

The field is about half an hour's drive from my house more or less.

But I don't see it viable to live of the field. They pay very little and you need large tracts of land with machinery for it.

Also you still depend on being in the system to sell and buy things, when the time comes they can cut you off, and also the police can come at any time if you are out of the system.

This can serve to survive if there is a famine or they don't let me buy food, but if there is an open persecution I won't escape martyrdom

almonds, tangerines, grapes, olives, onions, melons and barbary figs, eggs, rainwater. Have you tried making wine. Keeps longer than grapes. In our neck of the woods barbary fig (prickly pear) is a prohibited invasive plant under the Biosecurity Act 2014, though the fruit can be purchased in big cetres.

This looks a good balanced diet; as long as you can hold onto it in time of famine you'll do fine. Congratulations!

I knew an old Italian man who lived in the alps as a child and his family survived well on chestnuts and goat's milk. He live to a ripe old age and was strong as an ox though quite diminutive.