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00 Opening Credits

01 Introduction

02 Chapter 1 Back to the Homestead

03 Chapter 2 From Division of Labor to Integrated Work

04 Chapter 3 From Time Clocks to Seasons

05 Chapter 4 From Artificial to Natural

06 Chapter 5 From Artificial Economy to Natural Economy

07 Chapter 6 From Wages to Productive Property

08 Chapter 7 From Anywhere to Somewhere

09 Chapter 8 From Extracting to Cultivating

10 Chapter 9 From Controlling Scarcity to Generous Abundance

11 Chapter 10 Discerning a Place Between Suburbia and the Village

12 Conclusion

13 Appendix

14 Discerning Ideas and Enterprises

15 Kitchen Garden

16 Orchard and Fruits

17 Rabbits

18 Poultry - Eggs

19 Hogs

20 Pastured Poultry - Fryer

21 Sheep

22 Goats

23 Cattle - Beef

24 Beekeeping

25 Cattle - Dairy

26 Timber & Forest Products

27 Equine

28 About the Authors

29 Closing Credits

Many people today desire a simple life that is closely connected to land, whether it be gardening, farming, or ranching. There is a spiritual draw to a non-consumeristic lifestyle that places God, the family, and the home at the center of all activity. This “agrarian conversion” has led many families to seek out rural communities and leave behind the suburban life.Over ten years ago two Catholic friends, Jason M. Craig and Thomas D Van Horn, experienced a similar agrarian conversion inspired by past Catholic land-movements and a growing desire to work with their wives and children, going deeper than just “supporting” them financially. Both began a journey, perhaps with a tad too much romanticism, toward land-based life on farms. All these years later, the two have been tempered by the unyielding realities of land and limitations, and have gained significant insights into the reasons, challenges, and possibilities of homesteading and farming. Van Horn operates a commercial bee operation and Craig operates a microdairy while working remotely for a Catholic apostolate. Both, however, now have extensive experience in general homesteading, niche-marketing of farm products, and trying to order their households around an agricultural life.In The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead, authors Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn present the practicalities and theological aspects behind the desire for a productive, holy home. Our current culture understands economy in efficient consumeristic terms, but our Catholic Faith tells us different. The productive homestead is the center of economic life and the family is at the center of the homestead. This book aims at bringing the stories from their experience into a presentation and proposal of homesteading as a way of life, considering the principles (why?) and the practicalities (how?).</article>

Liturgy of the Land