Pork Production at Homestead Scale – Epi-3571

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Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Today we are joined by long time listener Kelsey Fernandez to discuss raising, harvesting and processing pork at homestead scale. We talk pig breeds, harvesting methods, butchering and even curing pork in this episode. Kelsey Beck Fernandez is a former suburbanite that was introduced to regenerative agriculture via his career in wine sales. His studies in wine, coupled with an interest in quality food, lead him to pursue homesteading with a particular focus on whole animal processing on the home scale. After taking a class in 2022 on traditional husbandry, harvesting, and preparation of home raised pigs, he now always … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:09.0	Let me show you a better way.
0:11.0	A better way.
0:21.0	You don't have to be another face in the crowd. And we are live welcome folks to episode 3,571 of the survival podcast. It is a Wednesday.
0:29.0	Today we're going to talk about one of my favorite things.
0:32.6	Bacon seeds and growing them into bacon and ham
0:35.6	and sausage and all kinds of wonderful things.
0:38.8	That actually makes me think of a Simpsons episode
0:41.2	where Homer was talking about something like bacon and sausage and you know
0:46.0	ham and like the March is like hey Homer those all come from one animal he's like oh
0:51.8	sure Marj a wonderful magical animal from the land of
0:55.7	narnia sometimes pigs can actually seem that way they're they're pretty amazing
0:59.8	critters as to what they do for us in a standpoint of food.
1:05.0	And this fits really well with the episode I did yesterday.
1:08.6	Yesterday we did an episode on The War on Meat,
1:11.8	which the media assures us doesn't exist.
1:15.0	It's all in your head.
1:15.8	It's a conspiracy theory.
1:17.6	And in every article where they tell you
1:19.7	that there's no war on meat,
1:21.6	and in the first paragraph, the rest of the article tells you why you
1:24.6	you shouldn't be eating meat well one of the ways to deal with that is to take on
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