CLM Objectives

• The restoration of Catholic rural property through the resettlement and practical support of rural, agriculturally and domestically productive households (homesteads).
• The education and training of Catholic laity in the domestic order, agricultural skills and craft traditions necessary to successfully cultivate Catholic homesteads.
• Cultivating a network of practical, spiritual and intellectual support between those established Catholic homesteads and those seeking to establish or support Catholic homesteads.
• The glorification of God.

Regenerative Agriculture

• What is the Catholic response to >CAFOs-- concentrated animal feeding operations? What would a Catholic Joel Salatin say (The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs)
• What can the average lay person do to be good stewards of the land? Not just the responsibility of nonprofits working in third world countries.
• What is a Catholic Worker Farm?

Focusing on What We Need

Everybody needs to eat. Benefits of healthy organic food and God farming and stewardship [thought provoking text here]

Leaving a family legacy

What will the world look like for our children? Family business and practical skills [thought provoking text here]