This podcast is for anyone desiring to learn more about the human process of traditional, ethical, economic and delicious livestock processing and eating.
Brandon and Lauren Sheard, co-hosts and owners of Farmstead Meatsmith--their small-scale, custom processing and education business--talk all things meat related: from practical knowledge to the philosophical inspiration behind growing, harvesting and eating meat.
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Episode 99: Farming, Wine, & Modernity with Kelsey Beck Fernandez of Finca Fernandez, Part 1
Friday, September 6, 2024 • Duration 01:09:34
In this episode, Kelsey and Brandon chat about farming and processing livestock in urban California, wine culture in Europe vs. the US, Kelsey's Family Pig class experience, and his first solo pig slaughter.
Looking for more Meatsmith knowledge? Join our online membership or come to an in-person class:
Hands-On Harvest Classes - Come to one of our harvest classes on our homestead in Oklahoma. We offer pork, beef, lamb, and goose harvest classes in the Spring and Fall. Spots are limited to just eight students per class to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! Farmsteadmeatsmith.com/upcoming-classes/
Meatsmith Membership - We created an online community and resource for homesteaders and farmers. It serves all those who want to cook and eat well. We offer the fruit of our labors (and our kitchen) from more than fifteen years of experience, and our Membership community of more than six hundred is an invaluable digital resource. The only one of its kind in the country, Meatsmith Membership provides an earnest and winsome approach to domestic livestock raising, slaughter, butchery, curing, cookery, and charcuterie. Join today and partner with us in growing your home around the harvest. Monthly memberships are $17.49/month plus a $29.99 signup fee. Or purchase an Annual membership for $189.49/year with no signup fee, saving you $50.38. There’s a 7-day free trial for Annual memberships. Farmsteadmeatsmith.com/membership/
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 99:
0:00 Graduate school connection to Kelsey Beck Fernandez (Faith vs. Atheism)
10:29 Getting into homesteading via wine production in California
17:27 Sourdough, 2020, and moving further into homesteading
20:53 Kelsey coming to our Family Pig Harvest class
28:53 Our classes are life-changing
33:56 Kelsey's first pig slaughter
41:55 Reckless inefficiencies of food production
49:20 Trying to make sense of reality
54:28 The Family is the irreducible unit of society
58:04 Challenging your likes and dislikes with bacon and wine
Episode 98: Catholic Farm Dad Stuff with Mark Wertin, Part 2
Thursday, July 11, 2024 • Duration 50:26
In this episode, Mark and Brandon chat more about smartphones, the value of mundane farm tasks, breeding Jersey milk cows and bulls, fencing for cows, and teaching folks (and your kids) to shoot pigs. Also, Mark wrote and performed a beautiful sonnet about shooting pigs for Brandon.
Looking for more Meatsmith knowledge? Join our online membership or come to an in-person class:
Hands-On Harvest Classes - Come to one of our harvest classes on our homestead in Oklahoma. We offer pork, beef, lamb, and goose harvest classes in the Spring and Fall. Spots are limited to just eight students per class to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! Farmsteadmeatsmith.com/upcoming-classes/
Meatsmith Membership - We created an online community and resource for homesteaders and farmers. It serves all those who want to cook and eat well. We offer the fruit of our labors (and our kitchen) from more than fifteen years of experience, and our Membership community of more than six hundred is an invaluable digital resource. The only one of its kind in the country, Meatsmith Membership provides an earnest and winsome approach to domestic livestock raising, slaughter, butchery, curing, cookery, and charcuterie. Join today and partner with us in growing your home around the harvest. Monthly memberships are $17.49/month plus a $29.99 signup fee. Or purchase an Annual membership for $189.49/year with no signup fee, saving you $50.38. There’s a 7-day free trial for Annual memberships.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 98:
0:00 The value of the mundane repetitive farm chores
14:16 Breeding Jersey milk cows and bulls
25:22 Fencing for cows
36:20 Teaching kids to slaughter livestock
43:44 Let Thy Belly Meet The Earth! Sonnet Mark wrote Brandon
Episode 89: The Art of Foie Gras, Part 1
Friday, December 1, 2023 • Duration 58:24
In this episode, we discuss the French monarchy, the difference between power and authority, the history of botulism (or lack thereof), Brandon's aversion to recipes, and our upcoming Art of Foie Gras class with Backwater Foie Gras in Louisiana.
Announcements:
Come to the 2-Day The Art of Foie Gras class in Louisiana this January 19-20. You'll learn the art of goose harvesting from Brandon and the art of gavage from Ross McKnight of Backwater Foie Gras. Spots are limited to just eight students so as to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! https://backwaterfoiegras.com/foiegrasclass
Come to a 3-Day Family Pig Harvest class, April 25-27, May 2-4, or May 16-18, whereyou will use only your hands to turn two pigs into kitchen-sized pork cures, cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. Spots are limited to just eight students so as to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/
Come to a 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class, June 20-22 or October 3-5, whereyou will use only your hands to turn four sheep into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The main difference between the Family Lamb and Family Pig is the skinning of sheep. Removing the hide from sheep, deer, elk, etc, ought to be learned by hand for an efficient and satisfying harvest. Spots are limited to just eight students so as to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/3-day-complete-lamb-harvest-course/
Meatsmith Membership A gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films, Brandon's Harvest Journal, and our community FaceBook group. 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page and apply the coupon code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign up today at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Episode 88 - Culling, Cattle Rotation, and Gregorian Chant, Part 2
Season 1 · Episode 88
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 • Duration 01:17:14
In this episode, we chat about Gregorian chant; what it is, how it's different from modern music, and how it impacts our lives.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Pig Harvest class this November and December and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are November 16th-18th, November 30th - December 2nd, and December 14th-16th. To keep the hands-on experience undiluted, classes are limited to just eight students. Jump on this chance and sign up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films, Brandon's Harvest Journal, and our community FaceBook group. 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page and apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 88:
0:00 What is Gregorian chant?
12:00 How Gregorian chant is different from modern music
15:06 You will understand even though it's in Latin
22:48 A different way of singing
32:21 Beauty orders the appetites
39:48 Chant appeals to the intellect
44:00 Definition of Beauty
51:34 How chant impacts our lives
Episode 87: Culling, Cattle Rotation, and Gregorian Chant, Part 1
Season 1 · Episode 87
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 • Duration 01:01:28
In this episode, we chat about the Assumption, our current virtue building, guilds & slaughterhouses of old, how our classes can get you off industrial meat, the meaning of culling, and rotational grazing on our farm.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Pig Harvest class this November and December and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are November 16th-18th, November 30th - December 2nd, and December 14th-16th. Tickets are $1,530 per person, with a limited capacity of just eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/
Our 3-Day Lamb Harvest class is SOLD OUT.
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long!
More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon.
Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing!
60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page and apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 87:
0:00 Intro & Assumption tide
5:47 Our current virtue building
9:00 Guilds & slaughterhouses of old
15:08 Our classes get you off industrial meat
26:20 The meaning of 'to cull'
31:46 The Slaughterman's Creed
Episode 86 - Of Land Hurricanes, Candle Light, and Large Living, Part 2
Thursday, July 27, 2023 • Duration 59:56
Episode 86 - Of Land Hurricanes, Candle Light, and Large Living, Part 2
In this episode, we chat about soft communism, weaning yourself from the comforts of urban life, and fasting. We continue our community vs family conversation, making a case for owning a bigger home, bodies needing space, and the duty to teach your children.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this November and December and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are November 16th-18th, November 30th - December 2nd, and December 14th-16th. Tickets are $1,530 per person, with a limited capacity of just eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long!
More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon.
Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing!
60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 86:
0:00 Intro
Episode 85: Of Land Hurricanes, Candle Light, and Large Living, Part 1
Thursday, July 13, 2023 • Duration 01:01:16
In this episode, we discuss recent extreme weather, how much 'rejection of technology' is reasonable, what technology keeps you from learning, and attending the Mass by candlelight.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this November and December and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are November 16th-18th, November 30th - December 2nd, and December 14th-16th. Tickets are $1,530 per person, with a limited capacity of just eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long!
More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon.
Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing!
60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 85:
0:00 Intro
1:02 History of our intro quote
7:55 Land hurricane
12:23 The Sacred Heart
Episode 84: Of Blood Bread, Beef Classes and Building Society, Part 2
Episode 84
Friday, April 14, 2023 • Duration 52:37
In this episode, we discuss the gift that is Community, Nature, Grace, & Original Sin, farming in reparation to God, the uselessness of smartphones, and the virtue of pork chops.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 1st-3rd and June 15-17th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long!
More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon.
Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing!
60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Topics for Episode 84:
Community doesn't save your soul, 1:01 Community & friendship can concur, 4:22 Choosing between community, worship, and land, 7:41 Nature, Grace, & Original Sin, 13:29 Farming is reparation to God, 17:33 Choose worship, 29:06 Communities formed around pilgrimages, 35:31 Smartphones are immensely useless, 43:00 The virtue of pork chops, 45:02
Episode 83: Of Blood Bread, Beef Classes and Building Society, Part 1
Episode 83
Thursday, March 30, 2023 • Duration 01:15:18
In this episode, we chat about raising beef and dairy cows, blood bread and modern food, and we continue our discussion on Community vs. Society.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 8th-10th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long!
More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon.
Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing!
60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Topics for Episode 83:
Beef breeds for our classes, 3:32 Sheep husbandry, 13:52 Goose class and Family Pig classes, 15:47 Raising dairy cows, 17:51 Blood bread, 23:53 Modern food tricks us into eating more, 28:33 Back to Community vs. Society, 39:25 Feed both the body and spirit, 40:28 Story from Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 42:59 Eating in the context of natural order & hierarchy, 50:29 The etymology of Community, 52:20 Losing community to unity, 1:03:32 Excess of Community on the Right and Left, 1:05:55 An authority that distributes common goods, 1:11:48
Episode 82: Community vs Society Part 2
Episode 82
Saturday, February 11, 2023 • Duration 57:40
Episode 82: Community vs. Society Part 2
In this episode we chat about community, its different forms, positives and negatives, its lack of definition, its function in ideology, and what it offers. We compare it to society, how the family is the essential unit of society, and the grace family provides to a community.
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 8th-10th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/
Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long!
More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon.
Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing!
60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith.
Who's the heir to the French throne? Unknown. There is evidence to suggest that the line of Louis XVI continued through Louis XVII, but mysterious circumstances surround the child-king's imprisonment and potential escape. He was 11 years old when he was imprisoned by the Revolutionary government, and yet a 14-year-old boy was found deceased in his cell. The KNOWN senior Bourbon descendant is Louis Alphonse de Bourbon (if crowned, would be Louis XX)
The Uprising in the Vendée occurred as a response to Revolutionary incursions into the Vendée, persecution of faithful priests, the murder of Louis XVI, the attempted installation of apostate priests in the parish churches in the Vendée, etc. It was a peasant uprising, nonetheless, led by noblemen and soldiers. It was successful for 3 years until the military campaign of the Catholic and Royal Army of the Vendée failed in the Loire valley. However, resistance to the Revolution continued for years after the destruction of the counter-revolutionary army.
La Nouvelle Vendée www.newvendee.com. Their recent conference in Arnaudville, Louisiana, launched a sort of Catholic Counter-Revolution in Louisiana.
Ellen Bloomfield, Monica Allen, Will Eichler, Tim Jones, Dennis M Carlson, Matthew Klimczak, Nate Crown, Tim Colton, Jeremy Wood, Warren Lund, Dohrman Farm, Ps42, Danielle, Alan Fortini-Campbell, Meghan Hickman
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Ellen Bloomfield, Monica Allen, Lisa Treat, Chris Sugg, Nan Wilson, Will Eichler, Tim Jones, Dennis M Carlson, Matthew Klimczak, Don Lang, Larry Kapigian, Nate Crown, Tim Colton, Jeremy Wood, Alana Quevedo, Dekota Donnell, Philip Durso, Warren Lund, Mujahid Abdallah, Dohrman Farm, Ps42, Danielle, Alan Fortini-Campbell, Meghan Hickman, Maria
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1:04 Soft communism
5:07 Fasting could be the first step toward farming
16:35 Community vs faith/family continued
21:43 We need larger living spaces because bodies need space
