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2025 Live Chats

January 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Westland Garryana; curing in different grow zones; avoiding flies without black pepper; freezer wrapping with just paper and avoiding plastic; generosity of the confit pot; Torching pigs; smoking with less than ideal wood; feeding peas and grains to pigs; cleaver sharpening; gambrel; bacon hangers; removing the pizzle; plucking Muscovies; how much milk per pig per day; intestine cleaning; weighing pig feed; keeping stock refrigerated; boiling corn; how to get people to like lamb; braise.

February 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Georgie the cow; pig castration; homestead economy; maintaining box truck; writing the book; torching a dry pig; emu slaughter; dull saw blades; crafting sausage spices.

March 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Film releases and such; orders of domesticated; Catholic agrarian groups; how to deal with all that fat, sausage, slow roast, confit pot/rillettes; Charcuteria by Jeffrey Weiss; cured blood sausage;

April 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

The medieval kitchen; geese propagation; keeping boars and sows; sharpening a cleaver; boar taint and the culinary uses thereof;  what to do with a Cow head; keeping a cow on alfalfa.

May 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Curing cuts of beef; how long to hang curing pork; pig skin and its uses; grass fed bull semen; beef tongue cookery; pithing chickens; Cooking gizzards; cure out of season; how to use over-dried meat; Luke Dougherty slaughter trailer.

June 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Basic cheese making; benevolent confinement; crossing state lines with meat; cheese and salami chamber; Trees for pigs to avoid; prices for old butcher blocks; pig feeders; working farmer’s markets.

July 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

What if your freezer dies?; lambs and parasites; sheep slaughter timing; intact male sheep? super delicious; sheep on pasture; sheep tartare; timing duck plucking; roasting potatoes in duck fat; advantage of pithing vs cutting the carotid.

August 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

What if your freezer dies?; lambs and parasites; sheep slaughter timing; intact male sheep? super delicious; sheep on pasture; sheep tartare; timing duck plucking; roasting potatoes in duck fat; advantage of pithing vs cutting the carotid.

September 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Eating bull meat; when to harvest animals; torching bbq pigs; skinning poultry; breaking down pork for sausage making; feeding grass-fed dairy animals sufficiently; Confit overview; emu meat; sheep fencing.

October 2025 Facebook Live Chat.

Prepackaged food, a history and concept; composting tractor; “leveling up” on livestock; how do you know the pile of compost is cooking; acquiring a dairy cow; wintering cows.

Goose Roasting & Cookery live

Brandon prepares, roasts, and carves a goose for the holiday table.
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