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Title: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Miser Peccator on June 02, 2022, 08:06:37 AM
I don't know anything about this particular group or their brand of trad, but this looks like a good idea.

Has anybody organized one of these in your area?

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Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Miser Peccator on June 02, 2022, 08:14:22 AM
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.



Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Minnesota on June 02, 2022, 08:33:10 AM
Now the one in New York comes with a disclaimer, unfortunately. Fine print, if you will.

https://www.ourladyofmartyrsshrine.org/mass-schedule

The shrine does say the Novus Ordo as well as the Latin Mass. A lot of people here would find that unacceptable.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Miser Peccator on June 02, 2022, 08:44:06 AM
Now the one in New York comes with a disclaimer, unfortunately. Fine print, if you will.

https://www.ourladyofmartyrsshrine.org/mass-schedule

The shrine does say the Novus Ordo as well as the Latin Mass. A lot of people here would find that unacceptable.

Of course, but that's not the point.

I'm not promoting them, specifically.

It's the idea of getting one started in your neck of the woods before the next lockdown and possible highway checkpoints etc.

Many people want to homestead but don't know how or where to start.

These are some ideas on how you might escape the smart cities and get started with people who share your brand of trad.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: bodeens on June 02, 2022, 06:56:19 PM
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.

That ia the situation I am in. Land but not enough hands to work it. Wish it was easier to network: would easily allow a trailer, bunk house or whatever. There are a couple of people I have considered but (right now) I only know those people online. No one has approached me at my Chapel about it  but I am VERY quiet there :cowboy:

That organization being Indult is really a killer though. Big oof.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 02, 2022, 10:53:28 PM
I remember (about 60 years ago) my own father making investigations and study of this issue. There was to be a project of some sort established in the Diocese of Wagga Wagga under church auspices.


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In Wagga in 1956 there were 38 groups, mostly because of the influence of Bishop Henschke. 3



Both my parents were country-born who had moved to Sydney in the youth, with their families.

This is a thesis based on these endeavours

https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20338/1/whole_MaddenKathy1995_thesis.pdf
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 02, 2022, 11:19:37 PM
Another doc from

The National Catholic Rural Movement, 1939-1955

Citation
Ayers, T. (1986). The National Catholic Rural Movement, 1939-1955. Honours thesis, Arts, The University of Melbourne.

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http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36638 (http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36638)

Description
© 1986 Tony Ayers

Abstract
It is now over forty years since the National Catholic Rural Movement (N.C.R.M.) began. On its inception in 1939 the ‘Movement’ became the first group established by the Australian National Secretariat of Catholic Action (A.N.S.C.A.), itself established only two years earlier in 1937. Adopting the motto “To Restore Christ to the Countryside ... and the Countryside to Christ” the NCRM embarked upon the promotion of a range of policies – from co-operative to Independent Farming, from the improvement of entertainment in rural homes to better prices for the small producer – amongst the Catholic farming community, farmers’ organizations and government. At the height of its popularity in the mid-forties the NCRM could claim a membership in excess of 5000 with groups in every State of Australia, excepting Tasmania and the Northern Territory. With its formative years occurring between two major phases of Australia’s development as an industrial economy, the 1920s and the late 1940s/early 1950s, the NCRM stated its purpose unequivocally as being ‘to restore and develop agriculture as the central institution of national life’. This thesis examines the first sixteen critical years of history and the many paradoxes intrinsic to its project. (From Introduction)

https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/items/6a652774-e493-5453-b2f7-32f50f800481

Bolding is mine.

Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 02, 2022, 11:31:18 PM
Catholic Rural Life (CRL) has a rich history spanning 98 years. The organization, originally called National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC), has spent decades dedicating hard work and prayer to promoting Catholic life in rural America.

https://catholicrurallife.org/about/history/
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Drolo on June 03, 2022, 09:44:05 AM
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:


(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Walraversijde53.jpg/800px-Walraversijde53.jpg)

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
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Miser Peccator on June 03, 2022, 11:46:39 AM
I remember (about 60 years ago) my own father making investigations and study of this issue. There was to be a project of some sort established in the Diocese of Wagga Wagga under church auspices.




Both my parents were country-born who had moved to Sydney in the youth, with their families.

This is a thesis based on these endeavours

https://eprints.utas.edu.au/20338/1/whole_MaddenKathy1995_thesis.pdf

Thanks for sharing those wonderful docuмents!

Perhaps there will be a Catholic remnant who revives this culture.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Miser Peccator on June 03, 2022, 11:52:08 AM
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:


(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Walraversijde53.jpg/800px-Walraversijde53.jpg)

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

That sounds like a good set up.

Of course, with all of their weaponry there is no place that is completely safe.

But that is true in every season.

After all, we could die in a car accident or slip in the tub today.

God's will be done.

I guess we just have to weigh what will give us the best chances at survival.

Once digital ID's are in place, the smart cities will be a virtual prison complex.

Hopefully a remnant will manage to survive with God's protection in the country.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on June 03, 2022, 12:03:21 PM
Catholic Rural Life (CRL) has a rich history spanning 98 years. The organization, originally called National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC), has spent decades dedicating hard work and prayer to promoting Catholic life in rural America.

https://catholicrurallife.org/about/history/
Very weird that Vatican II wiped that out CRL in local rural areas and punished children who worked on farms or family owned businesses.  The corrupt diocese dumped the lazy pedophile priests who drank and pushed theatre.  Source of truth is bishop accountability.org.   
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 03, 2022, 09:40:26 PM
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:


(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Walraversijde53.jpg/800px-Walraversijde53.jpg)

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.   
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: jvk on June 04, 2022, 05:51:37 AM
Our family has been doing the "homestead" thing for a while now.  The best way to start is by picking one thing to work on at a time, rather than trying to do it all at once.  

Some good authors of do-it-yourself books are John Seymour (or Seymore) and Carla Emery.  Of the 2, I think Emery has the most practical do-it-yourself book.  It's wonderful.  I've referred to it often over the years.

Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Drolo on June 08, 2022, 02:19:15 AM
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. 

I have made vine a few times with a neighbor who has the machinery. I know how to do it, although I prefer beer. But yes, it's an option for the situation we are considering. 

Here there isn't a problem with prickly pear, but of course it depends on the country, I live in the Southeast of Spain.

I can't have animals because that requires going every day.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 08, 2022, 02:44:16 AM
I have made vine a few times with a neighbor who has the machinery. I know how to do it, although I prefer beer. But yes, it's an option for the situation we are considering.

Here there isn't a problem with prickly pear, but of course it depends on the country, I live in the Southeast of Spain.

I can't have animals because that requires going every day.
Nice to have someone from Spain. Are you a native or have you migrated? I am in the far north of Australia.

For 14 years, in our younger days, while our children were growing up, we used to make "wine" from many different fruits. Orange blended with banana was a nice balance, mango was good too, but the pick of the wine was pineapple - a light bubbly champagne. We even made grape wine when the grapes were going cheap!

Keep up the good work.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: FarmerWife on June 08, 2022, 11:09:43 AM
My husband started homesteading/off-grid and it was a huge change since he was raised in the city. He had to save up in order to do so. The growing season is short (long winters) but we do have chickens that will give us many eggs a day. Ideally, we'd like our children to settle on the land and have their own families, and create a sort of community. Also, we didn't finish post-secondary but have done a bit of it, so we're not keen on encouraging it to our kids, especially daughters.

We do sell our eggs to our neighbour and to another local, barter for beef and canned goods. Our area is not very traditional or Catholic really and many of the farmers' children have moved to the city. I have seen some kids around here help with the cattle ranches. We plan to get sheep and dogs, but it depends on our financial situation.

Unfortunately, our land flooded recently so my husband had to move to a spot with higher elevation to start building our house.

Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Drolo on June 08, 2022, 12:05:07 PM
Nice to have someone from Spain. Are you a native or have you migrated? I am in the far north of Australia.


Native. Curious, I thought you would be Arab or Moorish because of your nick.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: epiphany on June 08, 2022, 12:26:44 PM
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Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: epiphany on June 08, 2022, 12:33:57 PM
My husband started homesteading/off-grid and it was a huge change since he was raised in the city. He had to save up in order to do so. The growing season is short (long winters) but we do have chickens that will give us many eggs a day. Ideally, we'd like our children to settle on the land and have their own families, and create a sort of community. Also, we didn't finish post-secondary but have done a bit of it, so we're not keen on encouraging it to our kids, especially daughters.

We do sell our eggs to our neighbour and to another local, barter for beef and canned goods. Our area is not very traditional or Catholic really and many of the farmers' children have moved to the city. I have seen some kids around here help with the cattle ranches. We plan to get sheep and dogs, but it depends on our financial situation.

Unfortunately, our land flooded recently so my husband had to move to a spot with higher elevation to start building our house.
Excellent.
Goats are dual purpose more so than sheep, unless you plan to shear then and spin wool.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: FarmerWife on June 08, 2022, 12:42:42 PM
Excellent.
Goats are dual purpose more so than sheep, unless you plan to shear then and spin wool.
I've never had goat meat and I really like lamb, but it's expensive in the stores. I think we might sell the wool or use it as stuffing? Also, we're interested in seeing if sheep's milk/cheese is a better alternative than cow's since we kind of have health issues with dairy. If goat's milk tastes fine, could try having them instead of sheep.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: epiphany on June 08, 2022, 12:49:44 PM
I've never had goat meat and I really like lamb, but it's expensive in the stores. I think we might sell the wool or use it as stuffing? Also, we're interested in seeing if sheep's milk/cheese is a better alternative than cow's since we kind of have health issues with dairy. If goat's milk tastes fine, could try having them instead of sheep.
Goat Meat is excellent!
And as long as you keep everything clean and have healthy goats, the milk is awesome.  Fattier than cows milk, too.  Makes the best yogurt and cheese!

Goats are less susceptible to disease than sheep and don't get gamey tasting as they age.

Do not eat unneutered male goats.  Testosterone makes the meat taste terrible.  Your dogs can eat it, though.

Just be sure to get a milk goat breed which does well in your climate. 

Goat milk is second to human milk, just behind camel milk, as far as digestibility and nutrition go.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 08, 2022, 07:16:11 PM
Native. Curious, I thought you would be Arab or Moorish because of your nick.
No. my heritage is mostly Irish. But the name Nadir originated in a round about way from an Albanian.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on June 08, 2022, 07:29:46 PM
My husband started homesteading/off-grid and it was a huge change since he was raised in the city. He had to save up in order to do so. The growing season is short (long winters) but we do have chickens that will give us many eggs a day. Ideally, we'd like our children to settle on the land and have their own families, and create a sort of community. Also, we didn't finish post-secondary but have done a bit of it, so we're not keen on encouraging it to our kids, especially daughters.

We do sell our eggs to our neighbour and to another local, barter for beef and canned goods. Our area is not very traditional or Catholic really and many of the farmers' children have moved to the city. I have seen some kids around here help with the cattle ranches. We plan to get sheep and dogs, but it depends on our financial situation.

Unfortunately, our land flooded recently so my husband had to move to a spot with higher elevation to start building our house.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_K1Vju0r6Q
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on June 08, 2022, 08:48:51 PM
https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/rural-life-prayerbook-11881
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Catholicman on August 09, 2023, 03:01:28 PM
They have another conference coming up in september. Anyone here going?
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 09, 2023, 03:09:51 PM
Where is it at?
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Catholicman on August 09, 2023, 03:20:01 PM
Indiana
https://catholiclandmovement.info/welcome
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: HeavyHanded on August 09, 2023, 06:31:36 PM
A guy from my parish went to the NY one. He is working to get a chapter going in NH. We have a signal chat of NH land movement folks. I raised, slaughtered and butchered two pigs myself last year. I’m doing 4 this year and thought about opening harvest day up to other catholic folks to see the process. But I think I would be just too stressed out as it is. I love that this movement is building. Putting it into action seems impossible sometimes. 5 kids under 8, really tough land, full time job with commute and Mass an hour away (essentially leaving only 1 day to work the homestead). I thought Fr. McNabbs book “ the church and the land” to be extremely profound and prophetic. 
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: AMDGJMJ on August 10, 2023, 06:43:03 AM
A guy from my parish went to the NY one. He is working to get a chapter going in NH. We have a signal chat of NH land movement folks. I raised, slaughtered and butchered two pigs myself last year. I’m doing 4 this year and thought about opening harvest day up to other catholic folks to see the process. But I think I would be just too stressed out as it is. I love that this movement is building. Putting it into action seems impossible sometimes. 5 kids under 8, really tough land, full time job with commute and Mass an hour away (essentially leaving only 1 day to work the homestead). I thought Fr. McNabbs book “ the church and the land” to be extremely profound and prophetic.
We have the same issue though we have 3 boys under 5.  There isn't really much time to do much planting ourselves and animals come out of the woods and eat most of what we plant.  :facepalm:

So...  Currently we have mostly herbs and flowers which are beneficial to adding in soups and making medicinals.  We also have backyard chickens for eggs.  We figure until the boys get older we will just support our local farmers instead of going crazy trying to do it all ourselves.  We have a nice source for raw milk and my parents often give us veggies and let us pick berries from their 1/4 acre garden.

That being said...  One of the men from our parish is really into the Catholic Land Movement and another friend of ours gave a speech at one within the past few months. 
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: St Giles on August 10, 2023, 10:34:21 AM
Sounds like you need a co-op of the local trads to get together occasionally and help people set up their garden and accomplish any other big works (fixing/ building things, occasional garden weeding/pest control/harvesting when the work piles up, ect. I'd be happy to tour around and help in such ways if I had the resources, but I'm just 1 guy. When are people going to learn that getting to heaven and raising children is a group effort that goes beyond each individual household. There may be some single parishioners who are well off money wise if they could live cheaply and do their part of sharing what they can. We need priests to get fired up and preach on this to the point people get serious about helping each other.
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Meg on August 10, 2023, 12:16:45 PM
Sounds like you need a co-op of the local trads to get together occasionally and help people set up their garden and accomplish any other big works (fixing/ building things, occasional garden weeding/pest control/harvesting when the work piles up, ect. I'd be happy to tour around and help in such ways if I had the resources, but I'm just 1 guy. When are people going to learn that getting to heaven and raising children is a group effort that goes beyond each individual household. There may be some single parishioners who are well off money wise if they could live cheaply and do their part of sharing what they can. We need priests to get fired up and preach on this to the point people get serious about helping each other.

Yes, it would be a wonderful thing if more priests would get fired up about the Catholic Land movement. But many trad priests are already so busy with just providing the sacraments for the Faithful.

Back in the 1920's and 1930's, when the Catholic Land movement started in the UK, both priests and bishops and even popes were on board with supporting a Catholic Land movement, but then WW2 but an end to all of that. It was interrupted to the extent that it never really got going again, unfortunately. 
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Viva Cristo Rey on August 10, 2023, 02:19:07 PM
That’s going to be a nice time had by all. 

Yes, World War II changed much globally.  And it wasn’t for the good. 
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Nadir on August 11, 2023, 12:25:07 AM
For more information(U.S.)
https://catholiclandmovement.info/chapter-directory

A site and article worth following up:
https://distributistreview.com/archive/the-catholic-land-movement
Title: Re: Catholic Land Movement
Post by: Geremia on November 04, 2023, 04:42:37 PM
The Church & Farming (https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=9726), the last work of Fr. Denis Fahey, C.S.Sp., is a must-read.