As a whole animal butcher who worked in Virginia, and now in California, with small, local, regenerative farms, this series hits home for me, deeply. I am so pleased to know that you all at New Polity have brought this topic to the forefront of Catholic minds. We must return to the land and, for those who still prefer cities, we must build beautiful cities with magnificent architecture again. So, I hope a series on architecture is coming? 🤔
6:20 - 8:07 and 30:10 - 33:31 Shawn and Beth's mission in brief. Restorative ag reclaims Catholic social principles, unifies the family and community, and improves the land. All from the abundance of God, all by simply paying respect and attention to the land you are steward over 49:03 - 54:12 John Calvin thinks weeds are a punishment of the fall, the Dougherty's (and all observant Catholics) know better. Personally, this insight made be a better gardener
This podcast is giving me "categories of reality" to quote E. Michael Jones, to speak about, as to why I feel GUILTY making so much money at my corporate job. Sheesh. And that is a good thing for me. Thank you all abundantly for producing this podcast. New Polity podcasts have the most "sticking power" out of most that I listen to (where "sticking" denotes actually acting upon what you hear) - I've already stopped contributing to my 401K after a prior related episode. Trying to make moves... God bless each of you.
I/ we owned a home on 3/4s of an acre which was previously a sweet potato farm. It was dreadful dirt of 'bulldust' when we began. I advised my husband to leave mowings over the years and let good grass self seed because I knew that grasses took over naturally. We hoed out elephant grasses, and eventually over 5 years, good low grasses knit and grew beautifully.
Loving the podcast Marc! Dense with info yet casual in form enough to listen while taking a walk :)! Recently read "The Church and the Land" by VIncent McNabb and a lot of stuff by distributist (Belloc, Chesterton, Penty). Not super-familiar with the topic yet so I'm very excited for this series! God bless. :)
"Lark Rise to Candleford" by Flora Thompson is amazing for gleaning preindustrial practices for village-living homesteads too :) It's like Little House on the Prairie in Chestertonian England.
Love learning from the Dougherty's. They are an amazing couple and have so much that we all, regardless of denomination, can learn from. Their book is a must have! My husband, Roger, and I first heard them speak three or four years ago. They so inspired us, that we purchased our first milkcow just this past October. She is due this fall and we can't wait to get started on the next part of our journey to independent farmsteading.
@15:34 look at how Beth looks at Shawn when he is speaking here. How beautiful is that? She absolutely delights in her husband speaking of their way of life. They are "radical" in every sense of the word! The farming bit was good, too ;)
As a child of economic immigrants, this is a fascinating discussion and one that feels like a hill start for getting me out of a current existential rut. We have a small garden which we are starting to experiment with, will be interested to read the book!
I just finished reading Joe Salatin's "You Can Farm" and had started another of his books "This Ain't Normal". Quite a coincidence that this is your next topic lol.
I'm assuming there's a familiarity here with Masanobu Fukuoka? The name "One-Cow Revolution" seems to be a direct allusion to his groundbreaking "One-Straw Revolution." Everything that's being said in these Good Soil episodes is following directly from his thought (and, obviously, from the Church), especially the regenerative and sustainable stuff. He has a HUGE problem with the technocratic paradigm's faith that man's wit is the answer to our agricultural woes -- that we simply need to come up with a better, cleverer solution to problems that keep popping up, the more we throw technocratic "fixes" at them
Really great content but a lot of interrupting eachother which is a rather frenetic modern tendency. Why not just record a three hour programme where you let eachother finish your thoughts.
As a whole animal butcher who worked in Virginia, and now in California, with small, local, regenerative farms, this series hits home for me, deeply. I am so pleased to know that you all at New Polity have brought this topic to the forefront of Catholic minds. We must return to the land and, for those who still prefer cities, we must build beautiful cities with magnificent architecture again. So, I hope a series on architecture is coming? 🤔
God is good!
thank you for this conversation. I was just doing some planting an the other end of the world. and in the pause I lisend and injoyd. thank be to God
Really looking forward to more of this. New Polity at it's finest again!
This is an excellent episode. Thank you SO much for highlighting the Doughertys!
So stoked for this series. It should be incredible.
So happy to see a podcast from you all on this. Keep up all the amazing work.
I've been waiting for this crossover since I picked up "The Independent Farmstead" last year. Super excited to see the rest!
6:20 - 8:07 and 30:10 - 33:31 Shawn and Beth's mission in brief. Restorative ag reclaims Catholic social principles, unifies the family and community, and improves the land. All from the abundance of God, all by simply paying respect and attention to the land you are steward over
49:03 - 54:12 John Calvin thinks weeds are a punishment of the fall, the Dougherty's (and all observant Catholics) know better. Personally, this insight made be a better gardener
This podcast is giving me "categories of reality" to quote E. Michael Jones, to speak about, as to why I feel GUILTY making so much money at my corporate job. Sheesh. And that is a good thing for me. Thank you all abundantly for producing this podcast. New Polity podcasts have the most "sticking power" out of most that I listen to (where "sticking" denotes actually acting upon what you hear) - I've already stopped contributing to my 401K after a prior related episode. Trying to make moves... God bless each of you.
Praying for you!
I/ we owned a home on 3/4s of an acre which was previously a sweet potato farm. It was dreadful dirt of 'bulldust' when we began. I advised my husband to leave mowings over the years and let good grass self seed because I knew that grasses took over naturally. We hoed out elephant grasses, and eventually over 5 years, good low grasses knit and grew beautifully.
Amazing!
Loving the podcast Marc! Dense with info yet casual in form enough to listen while taking a walk :)!
Recently read "The Church and the Land" by VIncent McNabb and a lot of stuff by distributist (Belloc, Chesterton, Penty).
Not super-familiar with the topic yet so I'm very excited for this series! God bless. :)
"Lark Rise to Candleford" by Flora Thompson is amazing for gleaning preindustrial practices for village-living homesteads too :) It's like Little House on the Prairie in Chestertonian England.
Love learning from the Dougherty's. They are an amazing couple and have so much that we all, regardless of denomination, can learn from. Their book is a must have! My husband, Roger, and I first heard them speak three or four years ago. They so inspired us, that we purchased our first milkcow just this past October. She is due this fall and we can't wait to get started on the next part of our journey to independent farmsteading.
There’s an ever growing movement, east coast to west coast, amongst Catholics. Lots of development.
Not just Catholics but many, many born again, God fearing people!!
@15:34 look at how Beth looks at Shawn when he is speaking here. How beautiful is that? She absolutely delights in her husband speaking of their way of life. They are "radical" in every sense of the word! The farming bit was good, too ;)
so glad that this popped up. does shawn and Beth have a you tube channel? And I am now interested in New Polity and what kind of channel this is.
As a child of economic immigrants, this is a fascinating discussion and one that feels like a hill start for getting me out of a current existential rut. We have a small garden which we are starting to experiment with, will be interested to read the book!
I just finished reading Joe Salatin's "You Can Farm" and had started another of his books "This Ain't Normal". Quite a coincidence that this is your next topic lol.
Yo Marc used psyop correctly. so proud!
one cow revolution🥰
I though Calvin and Hobbs instantly too ;)
excited about this series! For better audio, please have people put the Microphones closer to people's mouths.
So stokkkeeddddddd
I'm assuming there's a familiarity here with Masanobu Fukuoka? The name "One-Cow Revolution" seems to be a direct allusion to his groundbreaking "One-Straw Revolution." Everything that's being said in these Good Soil episodes is following directly from his thought (and, obviously, from the Church), especially the regenerative and sustainable stuff. He has a HUGE problem with the technocratic paradigm's faith that man's wit is the answer to our agricultural woes -- that we simply need to come up with a better, cleverer solution to problems that keep popping up, the more we throw technocratic "fixes" at them
Maybe this will lead to nutrition truth like Weston A Price and Pottenger's cats
Artichokes are thistles, so man even after the fall did find some use for them.
Really great content but a lot of interrupting eachother which is a rather frenetic modern tendency. Why not just record a three hour programme where you let eachother finish your thoughts.