Building a family and a farm and a factory. Father of 4+1. Catholic. Distributist. Ex-jump boy. Walker of the upland. Shepherding more than just sheep.
One of the great powers of starting a homestead is that you quickly learn, you are not as in control as this modern world has led you to believe. And as I’ve been reminded:
There is an hour at the end of the day in a house with young children when the whole place begins to reveal what the day has been: shoes scattered across the floor, a half-finished glass of milk aband…
I heard this incredible story this past Sunday at the coffee and donut chat following Mass about why the church we currently attend is full of young families, many with four children or more, all sitt…
There are Extractive Economies and Rooted Economies. The latter used to be more prevalent across America. The majority of Americans used to participate in it. Not necessarily by choice, but because it…
Sunday has historically been known as the Sabbath, the Biblical day of rest. In many religious societies, and for countless individuals throughout history, this day was taken very seriously. Yet in mo…
I haven't even left, but I already wish I was back home.
The word "dissident" carries a certain edge: evoking images of tinfoil hats, perpetual rage, or the black-pill mindset where everything's corrupt, conspiratorial, and doomed. It's the attitude of some…
Lately, I've been circling around a concept that has reshaped how I see the world, one I've mentioned before but never unpacked fully. Subsidiarity. A word that is probably quite unfamiliar to most, a…
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we handle money in this modern world, especially as a dad trying to build something real for my kids. My wife and I have talked about this idea much over the past …
I wake, and the world is whitened, and it is bright, bright as if dawn already spilled itself across the fields, though the sun is still hidden, still below, still withheld behind the rim of the earth…
On nurturing our children's innate cravings for natural foods
