Author: Eric Brende

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Eric and his wife Mary homesteaded in rural Kentucky in the 1990s and during that time, he wrote a regular column entitled “An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal,” later changed to: “A Homesteader’s Journal” about his experience as a Catholic homesteader living in an Amish community.

Articles in Caelum Et Terra by Eric Brende :

Summer 1992

Volume 2 no 3

Are the Amish Marginal? A Common Objection to Technological Moderation Addressed

Fall 1992

Volume 2 no 4

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: Amification Now

Winter 1993

Volume 3 no 1

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: Natural Climate Control and Its Enemies: An Amish Window Onto the Origins of the Modern Police State

Spring 1993

Volume 3 no 2

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: After the Fall: Tales of our First Harvest

Summer 1993

Volume 3 no 3

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: Amish Infrastructure or Doing Community the Natural Way

Fall 1993

Volume 3 no 4

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: Amishland: Where Feminism was Never Necessary

Winter 1994

Volume 4 no 1

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: First-Steps in Village Making

Spring 1994

Volume 4 no 2

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: The Underside of a Junior Farmer’s Life

Summer 1994

Volume 4 no 3

An Apprentice Farmer’s Journal: Salvaging the Barbarians: The Paradox of Amish Seclusion

Winter 1995

Volume 5 no 1

A Homesteader’s Journal: The Amish Paradox: Religion vs. Dereliction

Spring 1995

Volume 5 no 2

A Homesteader’s Journal: An Unexpected Turn on the Amish Road

Summer 1995

Volume 5 no 3

A Homesteader’s Journal: Falling Below the Social Hemline

Fall 1995

Volume 5 no 4

A Homesteader’s Journal: Of Kerosene and Fireflies

Winter/Spring 1996

Volume 6 no 1

A Homesteader’s Journal: Woman, Hearth, and Bed

Summer 1996

Volume 6 no 2

A Homesteader’s Journal: From Car to Bicycle to Horse

Fall 1996

Volume 6 no 3

A Homesteader’s Journal: An Amish Sermon

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