Author Archive for Kevin Ford

Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement
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Distributism and the Local Organic Food Movement

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Great change for the good often comes slowly. It creeps up through the cracks in a broken system, and begins to take the place of its previous forms. Slowly, public opinion, public actions, and individual sentiments begin to be formed in a new way. This is exactly what is happening in America today. The Local […]

CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism
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CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism

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After quitting my job as a school teacher in 2010 to become a full-time organic farmer, I was left with a dilemma. I was quite certain that I could grow high quality produce, but what was I going to do with it? I had heard about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs from various other small-scale […]

From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land
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From Teacher to Farmer: Why I Went Back to the Land

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A little more than a year ago, I quit my job as a theology teacher at a Catholic high school to become a full-time organic farmer. I like to call myself a “Catholic farmer”, because I am striving to live out the Church’s teachings on marriage and the family, as well as Catholic social teaching, […]