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 [...]
The Canton Farmers' Market will run every Saturday morning, 8:00 a.m to 11:30 a.m. June 16 - Oct. 6, 2018. It is located in the Nadine McIlwain Administrative Building Parking Lot at the corner of Fourth St NW and McKinley Ave NW. The site is perfectly suited with grass, trees and plenty of free parking. [...]
Hand Hewn Farm is made up of five friends: Andy and Katie Lane, Doug and Molly Wharton, and Kathy Neal. In 2014, these friends made the decision to combine efforts and move to Andy’s grandparents’ family farm in Tuscarawas County. They raise pigs in the woods, and rabbits and layer and broiler chickens on pasture. [...]
This workshop will start with a hands-on butchering of half a heritage hog to cover many of the options for dry cured pork cuts as well as those from other animals. Once we have isolated the cuts for dry curing, we will discuss historical techniques as well as more modern methods for preserving pork. While [...]
Our “Make and Take” classes allow you to come to the farm and experience an on-farm butchering experience with others in our cozy farm butcher shop. We will eat and drink well, and create wonderful food for you to take home to your own table. Select a class below to read more about each offering. [...]
Join Reformation Acres at Hand Hewn Farm for this unique agriculture to culinary experience. Over the course of three days we will be taking a heritage, mangalitsa hog from pasture to pâté and more. All three days offer intense hands on experiences from humane slaughter all the way to salami production. The entire pig will [...]
Our Dry curing class will focus on the ancient art of adding salt to meat to create luxurious cured meats that have become famous throughout the world. The students will start with half of a hog and break it down into popular cured meat cuts. Prosciutto from the ham, Pancetta from the belly, lonzino from [...]
This past March Matt B. came up to Hand Hewn Farm in Fresno, OH and went through our 3 Day Whole Hog Intensive Workshop. It was a great time and he learned how to respectfully harvest, butcher and make use of almost every part of the pig. Matt decided to have Doug and Andy down to Middle [...]
