Ep. 508: Not Your Daddy's Farm

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2024

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Will Harris, Janis Putelis, Randall Williams, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider.

Topics discussed: Will's new book, A Bold Return To Giving a Damn; go visit and explore the White Oak Pastures farm; ask a farmer; 6th generations; Jani’s daughter’s first buck; tears of joy; when you're eager to see what's in the stomach; dry firing on everything; a write in from a surveyor and how corners aren't usually accurate; a link between smaller jaws and sleep apnea?; from calf to cooked; "supper" over "dinner"; a closed cyclical system; the dung beetle as MVP; natural chicks with large testicles; slaughtering your own herd year round; managing for the benefit of one animal may be to the detriment of another; greenwashing; peanut shells in huge compost piles; and more.

Outro music: “Selling The Farm” by Houston, Texas group Polecat Rodeo. Music by Mark Meent, lyrics by Dan Fields, arrangement by Mark Meents and Blake Abbott.

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0:22.0	in meat eat's American History series.
0:25.0	It's a bizarre tale about a fascinating group of Back Woodsman
0:29.2	and the forgotten trade in the skins of North America's favorite big game animal, the white-tailed deer,
0:35.0	featuring the exploits of Daniel Boone and a host of other long hunters
0:39.0	as they forced their way through one of the most violent, inspiring, and bad-ass periods of American history.
0:46.0	It's out on January 9th, but you can pre-order it now wherever audio books are sold.
0:51.0	That's Meat Eater's American History, The Longhunters,
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