We will be headed to a small homestead in Knox county to show a family how to harvest their own heritage breed hogs. The workshop will span two days and will cover slaughter, butchering, and curing of their pork. This is a private workshop but if you are interested in these types of opportunities please [...]
Greg Burns and his family have been raising high quality, heritage breed hogs for friends and family. This year for their own hog they have decided to take the harvest into their own hands. It is not enough for this family to send their hogs off to be slaughtered, cleaned and wrapped by someone else. [...]
This workshop is a threeĀ day, extensive hog harvesting workshop. We will start FridayĀ morning walking through the steps necessary to harvest a hog on our farm. After we walk you through our process we will show you how we do it. Our time will focus on humane slaughter practices, proper scalding for hair removal, and utilization [...]
Join Doug Wharton and Andy Lane of Hand Hewn Farm for a three-day exploration of how to efficiently, beautifully, and practically take a homestead hog from pasture to plate. This course is more intensive than most workshops offered by Hand Hewn Farm.Ā One 2-year-old sow will be our focus for all three days. Waste will [...]
Doug and Andy will be representing Hand Hewn Farm in Michigan for the Great Lakes Boucherie. They will be showing attendees how to humanely harvest a hog for the festival while also utilizing the whole hog. From their website.. "The Great Lakes BoucherieĀ has been created to celebrate the culinary traditions of our eastern and western [...]
Hand Hewn Farm will be returning to Reformation Acres in December of 2017 for a homestead hog harvesting workshop. Starting on Friday, December the 8th we will begin the difficult but rewarding work of home scale hog slaughter, butchering, and preservation. We, Doug and Andy, will walk participants through all aspects of homestead hog harvest. [...]
Join Doug and Andy from Hand Hewn Farm for a traditional, on-farm hog harvest. We will use all three days to joyfully take two heritage hogs that have been lovingly raised at Liberty Farm from pasture to plate. We will walk attendees through the entire process from the kill to the sausage and everything in [...]
Join Doug Wharton and Andy Lane of Hand Hewn Farm for a three-day exploration of how to efficiently, beautifully, and practically take a homestead hog from pasture to plate. One forest raised, heritage hog will be our focus for all three days.Ā Day one we will show how to humanely kill, collect blood, scald, dehair, harvest [...]