It’s late October in Sharon, New York. The hills are painted red, orange, and yellow. Mist hangs in the earth-scented air, far below the migrating birds.
“The retreat of bugs and peepers creates a pensive silence this time of year,” said traditionalist farmer and cidermaker Michael Thomas in an Oct. 27 text message–one of a series of interviews with The Epoch Times.
On Twitter, Thomas is “Michael Thomas of Sharon”: “Father of five. Traditional Catholic.”
Through his account, he has spurred a new, old response to the dislocating power of modernity–the Catholic Land Movement, the revival of a nearly century-old effort to promote homesteading among faithful Catholics. (He owns the website catholiclandmovement.info.)…