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.

• For more Information on our Local Chapter: 

  Please email:  [email protected] (Edelweiss) or [email protected] (Chapter President)

How can we meet these objectives at the local level, i.e. Eastern Indiana Chapter?
 

• Two key tenants: Subsidiary and Solidarity. The chapter isn't intended to be another organization that puts demands on your time and creates bureaucracy to encumber you with activities; rather the chapter is intended to promote this movement in order to give glory to God and to strengthen community. The end state is to have a strong community/network of Catholic homesteaders in order to rebuild Catholic culture.

How:

• Monthly meetings that can rotate between homesteads or be at a central location
• Identify ways to build community,
• Build network of spiritual support, 
• Share skills to enable growth, 
• Seek opportunities to help each other practically, 
• Begin to re-orient our thought process to local means of sustaining ourselves, proper domestic order and cultivation of Catholic homestead life.
• Share a meal/food/potluck focused on homestead harvest. Opportunity to share recipes as well.
• Identify methods or ways to support land acquisition to enable those that desire to homestead more substantially.