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"A child's greatest poverty is to be deprived of the love, protection and tender warmth of a family."
-JPII Dec. 12, 1996, address to Bishops


"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."
-Mother Teresa

About Our Family

We are a Catholic homesteading family with 9 children. We have built a cordwood/cob house in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Our homestead currently consists of a few jersey cows, a couple of icelandic sheep, icelandic ponies, a pair of mules and a flock of chickens.