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. One 2-year-old sow will be our focus for all three days. Waste will [...]
Justin Rhodes and family from Abundant Permaculture will be visiting the farm and they want to meet fans, farmers, and homesteaders in our area. We will be hosting an open-to-the-public meet up and potluck. Make sure to label the ingredients in your dish and bring your own table service, chairs, or blankets.
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 Boucherie has been created to celebrate the culinary traditions of our eastern and western [...]
Doug and Andy will be giving two hog butchering demonstrations at this wonderful conference in Virginia on October 14th. The Homesteaders of America conference is a self-sustainable conference of education and support for homesteaders across the United States and beyond. The 2017 conference will be held on October 14, 2017 in Warrenton, Virginia. The [...]
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 us this February for a fun group of workshops focused on the wonderful world of eggs, sausage making, pâtés and terrines, and bacon curing. These workshops are focused on teaching about our farm practices, chickens, eggs and the anatomy of the pig and why certain parts are better suited for different preparations in the [...]
Preparing food with a sharp knife empowers the home chef and elevates a mundane task to a satisfying, if not, pleasurable experience. In this hands-on workshop, guests will be equipped to take whatever knife is lying around in their kitchen and get it to sharpness that they had previously unimagined. No more smashed tomatoes or [...]
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. Day one we will show how to humanely kill, collect blood, scald, dehair, harvest [...]
This event is focused on grounding in order to grow and expand in all areas of your life. Katie Lane will start us off with a tour of Hand Hewn Farm. This farm is rooted deep in regenerative farming practices, building the earth while raising heritage pigs, chickens, and rabbits. We will then flow through [...]
720 MARKET IS: A unique and curated, special event open-air market at various venues in and around the community of North Canton. A fresh opportunity to shop local, support local businesses and experience a local venue in a new way. A showcase for local makers, bakers, brewers, growers and more® along with community nonprofits, live local music and [...]
Join the friends and family of Hand Hewn Farm on Sunday June 3rd for an informal potluck. We love having visitors out to the farm! Bring a dish to share and table service, we will provide seating, water, lemonade, iced tea, and coffee. If weather allows we may take a couple quick tours of the [...]
