Welcome!

The purpose of Meatsmith Membership is to unlock the peasant art of agricultural abundance from field to plate. For more than 15 years, we have been the farmers, slaughterman, butchers, charcutiers, and cooks of our food. We have learned that, though these are separate disciplines, each worth a lifetime of pursuit, they’re part of the peasant kitchen. This is not because peasants are primitive, limited to the artless struggle to fill the stomach. To this day, the best ham in the world is made using peasant methods. No, the home-cook could raise, slaughter, butcher, cure, and cook the backyard pig because the peasant kitchen is magnanimous. The cures that hold winter’s famine at bay are also arguably the best tasting. Thrift and extravagance kiss in the peasant kitchen.

Thus, we humbly offer the Meatsmith community to you. Our membership includes many resources for an earnest and winsome approach to domestic livestock raising, harvesting and eating…the only one of its kind in the country.

We invite you to consider all the tools and experience we, and our community members, have to share with you as you grow your domestic life around the Harvest. We look forward to hearing all about your challenges and successes, the joys and fruits of your labor.

Your devoted Meatsmith,

Brandon Sheard

What’s included:

There are more than 50 films available exclusively for our members. These are demonstrative videos of Brandon working in the field and our butcher shop. Topics included are:

Beef, butchery, cookery, meat curing, goat and sheep, knife sharpening, pork, poultry, rabbit, sausage making, slaughter, and smoking meat.

• Access to our incredible private Facebook group, A Meatsmith Table. This group has become the backbone of membership over the years. The collective knowledge of hundreds of meatsmiths, homesteaders, and our past students is invaluable.
• Monthly live chats with Brandon. This is the primary way of providing fresh, real-time, and consistent connection with Brandon. Contribute live or submit your questions ahead of time on all Meatsmith, farming, homesteading, and even family topics. Every live chat is archived for replay in our Resource Library.

• All the archived live chats since 2017
• Our Meatsmith Forums. The off-Facebook community space for asking questions and sharing Meatsmith experience
• All 10 The Butcher’s Salt e-chapters
• To Kill a Pig Nicely slaughter film, the full version
• 20+ Harvest Journal entries/articles written by Brandon from 2017-2019. These reflections supply a little inspiration, philosophy, and know-how on the multi-dimensional topics of slaughter, butchery, cookery, charcuterie, wrappery, cutlery, roastery, and more.

Additional Information

→Meatsmith Membership is a subscription that renews automatically monthly or annually.

→Membership Terms and Conditions

• We offer monthly memberships for $17.49 with a one-time signup fee of $29.99. The fee covers all the additional membership content we’ve added since 2017. With an annual membership of $189.49/year we waive the sign up fee.
• Meatsmith Membership is an auto-renewing subscription. You can cancel your membership at any time by going to My Account < Subscriptions < Actions < Cancel. 
• We do not offer membership refunds. If you don’t want to be charged, please take note of your renewal date and cancel your membership a full 24 hours before it’s set to renew. You can find your renewal date under My Account < Subscriptions. 

→Want to gift a  Membership?

Our system can only make one Membership purchase at a time. If you intend to purchase multiple Memberships, please process them individually. 

1) Enter your giftee’s name in the Billing Details. The username for the account you make will be auto-generated based on the name you enter and cannot be changed. In the address field, enter the address connected to your credit card.

2) The password you set at checkout can be reset later at My Account < Account Details.

3) If you don’t want your giftee to know about the gift just yet, use your email address and we’ll change it manually later. 

4) Leave us a note in your order saying the Membership is a gift. Please provide us with your giftee’s name and email address and when you want us to notify them. 

If you have any questions about this, please email us at Community@farmsteadmeatsmith.com.