148. Small Homestead Living: Raising and Sourcing Quality Animal Foods | Amy Sliffe of Blue Whistler Farm
Simple Farmhouse Life
Lisa Bass
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
What began as a conversation about options for sourcing quality meat turned into a fascinating discussion on all that you can accomplish on a small homestead. Amy homesteads less than five acres, and she is full of creative ideas for making the most of a small space. For those who are interested in raising their own meat, we dive into what that looks like on a small scale. For those who want to source high-quality meat without raising it themselves, we also share our best tips for that. And if you stick around until the end of our discussion, you might just find yourself adding dairy sheep to your homestead! May this episode inspire you to think creatively about producing and sourcing animal foods no matter the size of your homestead.
In this episode, we cover:
- The beauty of finding community as a homesteading mama
- Counting the cost of raising your own beef
- Where to begin sourcing food locally
- Options for raising your own meat on a small property
- Different approaches to weaning calves and lambs
- What to know when ordering meat in bulk
- Choosing and using the various cuts of meat
- Questions to ask your farmer about how your meat is raised
- Surprising benefits of dairy sheep over other dairy animals
- Why you might want to prioritize raising animals on your homestead
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today, I'm having on Amy's life |
| 0:05.7 | from Blue Whistler Farm. She's also the founder and creator of Homestead Mama. So if you've |
| 0:10.8 | been on Instagram, which supposed to be probably been on Instagram, but you might want to follow along |
| 0:15.6 | with them because creators all over the world who are homesteaders do takeovers on that account. |
| 0:22.5 | I've actually done one myself and share, you know, happenings around their farm, things they're |
| 0:26.4 | learning, maybe some recipes that they're making. It's a really great place to follow along. |
| 0:30.8 | Very grateful for that community. This conversation with Amy, it took a few different turns into some |
| 0:37.3 | very interesting concepts on homesteading on a really small space, which I really appreciated. So |
| 0:43.2 | the idea of this podcast episode is to talk about sourcing. So finding meat and then actually |
| 0:50.2 | getting it in the cuts that you want, how to talk to the butcher, how to maybe make it work for |
| 0:56.3 | your family. And she had some really practical tips on maybe avoiding some of the cuts that you |
| 1:01.0 | don't like as much. But then we also talked about animals that you can raise caloric bang for your |
| 1:07.4 | buck on very small acreage and how to nourish yourself with your own property, even if you don't |
| 1:14.1 | live on a homestead. If you think you want a homestead, but you think you have to move, this is |
| 1:18.4 | definitely a really good episode for you. So without further ado, let's dive into the episode. |
| 1:23.5 | My name is Lisa, mother of seven in creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. |
| 1:29.0 | Join me as I share with you my love for creating a handmade home from scratch, |
| 1:33.3 | cooking, and a little mom and entrepreneur life along the way. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, hey Amy, I'm so excited to finally have you on the podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:48.0 | I know that we've had a little bit of back and forth on getting you on here, but I'm glad to |
| 1:51.2 | finally have you on. I found out about you because of homestead mamas. So if you first want to just |
| 1:56.3 | start by introducing yourself and your homestead and homestead mamas, that would be awesome. |
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