Mike Thomas of the Catholic Land Movement joins me to talk about Catholic Land Movement news. We also share about our apple orchards and cider.
The purpose of the Catholic Land Movement is “a rural resettlement of Catholics onto productive property which they own”.
This is a network of Catholics supporting one another to help people start homesteads, and to help make homesteads and small farms thrive. They do this through helping folks find land, as well as skill swapping and workshops.
- The Catholic Land Movement is now up to 30+ chapters!
- Mike and his team visited Rome to discuss their mission and were able to meet with Pope Francis.
- Now it is a 501c3 and you can donate to help the Catholic Land Movement.
- We also share about apple trees, progress in our orchards, my challenges with fire blight, and lambing season on the homestead.
- It has been so cold that his cider froze. How Mike will recover and try to to restart the fermentation.
- We talk about the joy of watching new lambs.
We also talk about Lent and Mike’s recent tweet: “Time to use Lent to purify myself, to conquer my disorder and weakness. Time to build a foundation.”
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Buy my chestnuts, hazelnuts, elderberry, and comfrey that are adapted to the Midwest.
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Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5′ x 3.5′, 17″ tall).
I use this for a perennial kitchen garden – growing herbs to use daily in the kitchen. Just come along and pick what you need for tonight’s dinner.
Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.
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