The Desert Reminds Us of the Importance of Rural Life
This week we, the CRL staff, are at a retreat center in Tucson, Arizona for our second Thriving in Rural…
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The Value of Community: Learning for the Greater Good
[Editor’s Note: The following article is from the Catholic Rural Life Magazine, Fall 2019 issue. To read the full pdf…
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An Ecological Conversion in Our Own Backyards
Saint John Paul II has stated that we, as a people, are in need of an “ecological conversion.” During his…
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Gaufres – St. Michael’s Waffles
In CRL’s Cooking for Christ cookbook, Florence Berger shares about traditions from the early Christians as well as across Europe…
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Dream of Wild Health Farm Visit
On August 16, I visited the Dream of Wild Health Farm in Hugo, MN with the CSJ Native American Awareness…
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The $800 Disk
In the spring of 1993 I was looking for a good field disk and gave Auctioneer Glen of Springfield a…
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A Very Extraordinary Day
As I sit trying to come up with the right words for this column I have written and deleted and…
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The Meaning of “Farm to Table” with Ron
[Editor’s Note: An excerpt of the following appears in CRL’s Spring 2019 Magazine, Our Farms to Our Tables. CRL interviewed…
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The Meaning of “Farm to Table” with Tom
[Editor’s Note: An excerpt of the following appears in CRL’s Spring 2019 Magazine, Our Farms to Our Tables. CRL interviewed…
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Our Yard Farm
I fancy myself a country boy – from a small Arizona town where I grew up surrounded by (very small…
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