It is in fact impossible
for any culture
to be sound and healthy
without a proper regard
for the soil,
no matter
how many urban dwellers
think that their food
comes from groceries
and delicatessens
or their milk from tin cans.
-Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement (from his Easy Essay, "Regard for the Soil")
2025 Growing Season
Crops (in order of planting): Onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, spinach, lettuce, radishes, cabbage, broccoli
This season, we have community work days on April 19th and May 3rd. We will announce more dates as the summer season approaches! If you are interested in volunteering, please send us an email at romerocatholicworker@gmail.com or text Mattie at (817)-964-6535.
We are striving to garden and grow food as stewards of the land and soil life, working with natural systems rather than imposing our own. We do this through various means: covering bare soil with mulches and cover crops; intercropping to mimic (and encourage!) natural biodiversity; and increasing organic matter in the soil with a diversity of living roots (grasses, broadleafs, legumes as cover crops and food crops). This season we are focusing on building up the soil through amendments such as leaf mulch, horse manure, rabbit pellets, and straw, which means that we have disturbed the soil more than we will in future seasons.
You can follow the progress of the garden here!
