On the Birthday of Blessed Mary — Traditional Catholic Priest

On today’s feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Augustine writes in the old Divine Office: “Dearly beloved brethren, the day for which we have…

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A Case for Raw Milk…(Slide Show)

Raw milk has gotten a bad rap over the years!  The good folks over at RealMilk.com and the Weston A. Price Foundation are on a…

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Preserving the Harvest….BACON!

So it turns out making your own bacon is super easy, way cheaper, and way tastier! A while back I attended a butchery course taught…

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New Look for the TCH Website!

We’ve changed the look of our site, added some new functionality, and just cleaned things up a bit!  Check it out, and let us know…

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Soil Restoration Techniques (Mercola Video)

Good soil health is essential to growing the most nutritious and disease resistant crops possible.  Here at the Traditional Catholic Homestead we are passionate about…

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Tree Guilds for increased yields with less work!

If you want more production with less work try out using permaculture tree guilds to lay our your next planting. Learn how to have healthier plants with no weeding or fertilizing all the while harvesting more!

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Sheet Mulching Our Front Yard!

I wrote a while back about our battle with thistles on the homestead.  One of my strategies for dealing with them on a small scale…

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Musing on the Apocalypse — Traditional Catholic Priest

I don’t know when Jesus is going to return in glory. I don’t even think that Satan knows when Jesus is going to return in…

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Greenhouse & Hugelkulture Video Update (Aug 2016)

Here is the promised video update of our greenhouse and a couple of the hugelkulture berms.  We had some setbacks in the greenhouse that delayed…

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Homestead Update Aug 2016

I know it’s been a while since we’ve put out some content, so I thought it would be appropriate to start things off again with…

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