Michael Thomas of Sharon 🌳🌳🌳🐑🐕🏡

Foot paths connecting Catholic Homesteads and Monasteries. Bells across the countryside ring for daily office and Mass. Scythes swooshing while hay falls down, hammers sounding while homes and Churches rise. Let’s work together towards a good and beautiful posterity.

A man's destination is his own village, His own fire, and his wife's cooking; To sit in front of his own door at sunset And see his grandson, and his neighbour's grandson Playing in the dust together. Eliot, "To the Indians who died in South Africa"

It’s a paradox to understand that I’m at a glorious pinnacle of human culinary achievement while drinking humble cider from a barrel in my barn and simple chicken made by my wife’s hand.

Purple thistle.

First CLM restoration conference outside of America is planned for October on the Feast of St Francis. We are an international movement! Hope to see more chapters take root and blossom internationally in the coming years.

Stewardship & inheritance. Cultivation of place.

+++ Tunc dicit discipulis suis: Messis quidem multa, operarii autem pauci. Matthew 9:37

"Gratia non tollit naturam, sed perficit." Sancte Thoma Aquinas, ora pro nobis.

Geese in the golden hour.

Predator was taking chickens earlier in summer so we are growing out new additions to the layer flock.