Archive for Category: "Agrarian"
Msgr. Luigi Ligutti and Distributism
As the Distributists and NCRLC argued, restoring economic functions to the family eliminated the concentration and collectivism by corporations and states unconcerned with the quality and distribution of our food or the preservation of mass ownership.
CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism
After quitting my job as a school teacher in 2010 to become a full-time organic farmer, I was left with a dilemma. I was quite certain that I could grow high quality produce, but what was I going to do with it?
From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land
The home was not a place to return to after work, but rather it was the place of work, it was the center of life, and it was the stability that fostered healthy families.
What Happened to Our Health Freedom?
Fifty years ago I could have bought raw milk anywhere. I could have had it delivered to my door. I could have bought raw cheese and grown anything in my garden. Today I might face a SWAT team.
Hard Times in Farm Country
The destruction of productive wealth is not good for farmers and ranchers and it’s not good for rural communities and it’s not good for our urban communities either. It’s called “eating your capital” and is a sign of desperation wherever it occurs.
What We Are Getting At
We propose the gradual re-creation of English agriculture, of English crafts, of English country life. We suggest that as England becomes more and more self-supporting the need for foreign markets and food imports will diminish.
Tilling Fertile Soil
To truly understand that God is the vine and we are the branches, or the parable of the mustard seed, or the sower whose seeds fell on good soil, we must have an experience of this natural wonder.
The People’s Supermarket
Farmers are very often forced into destroying vast quantities of their produce, because it doesn’t fit the narrow, mostly ‘aesthetic’, criteria employed to select food for sale at supermarkets or to restaurants. The People’s Supermarket has made a very important decision in deciding to work directly with local producers and effectively guarantee to buy all their produce and bring it to market.
The Growth and Decline of the Roman Economy
The loss of its supply of food is the very thing that brought the western empire to the end of its resources. The Eastern Empire by contrast, had become populated with farming communities which could now support the agricultural needs, something that did not take place in the Western Empire. This enabled it to last for nearly another thousand years.