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In this episode, Brandon talks with Daniel Firth Griffith of the Robinia Institute in The Conversationalist Webinar Series. The topics discussed range from descaling agriculture to Aristotle. 

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Show Notes:

  • Our move to Oklahoma, 1:39
  • Intro to The Conversationalist Webinar Series, 7:07                 
  • Pursuing a philosophical goal, 12:09
  • Regionally specific habits, 23:17
  • The PNW has no ham curing traditions, 25:56
  • Descaling agriculture, 29:55
  • The high demand for butchery in every state, 38:10
  • Transparency of slaughter, 43:10
  • What does it mean to be a good slaughterman, 47:18
  • Liberating the harvest, 55:23
  • Descaling all the way back to the family farm, 57:07
  • Carry all the responsibility yourself vs. dependence, 1:00:00
  • Where can people learn more about harvesting livestock, 1:03:18
  • Yearn for tradition in building, etc, 1:06:28
  • Forming dependence, 1:15:08

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“An agriculture using nature…as its measure would approach the world in the manner of a conversationalist. It would not impose its vision and its demands upon a world that it conceives of as a stockpile of raw materials. …Now we must think of marriage.”

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