Greetings from Farmstead Meatsmith
click here to go to our current kickstarter
We are
small scale livestock processors in the Puget Sound region. We harvest animals using traditional methods and we offer hands-on classes in everything from slaughter to sausage making.
Restoring Husbandry to Prosperity
We believe the current state of meat fabrication in America is an intolerable blasphemy against the universe, not to mention what it does to our planet and our bodies. We believe the answer is
local empowerment through instructional media that pertains to the miracle by which animals are transformed into simple food; that is, the best tasting food that rightly hallows its origin. Our aim is to restore this peasant art to it's proper home: your kitchen.
The Means
Two years ago, we launched a
Kickstarter campaign to fund a free video series called On the Anatomy of Thrift. It was successful. You can view it below or at
http://anatomyofthrift.com/
We want to create more of this media. To do so, we need to square away our basic infrastructure. This is not so much an expansion of our business as it is growing into the services we are already providing. We have been butchering without a shop, teaching without a classroom and filming without a studio.
We have launched a Kickstarter campaign to complete our butcher shop and slaughter truck which, if successful, will get us proper licensing, enhance our local services, multiply our class offerings and enable more instructional media.
Consider contributing
to our project by helping us build our shop and truck. If you can't do that, please spread the word. In this case, the greater the quantity, the higher the quality. Kickstarter has the unique ability to make the little that is given in love be more valuable than much that is loaned in greed.
Because permies.com provides such a wealth of wisdom, we want to extend to every permie who backs our campaign the Meat Cooking Principle reward regardless of the contribution level. Choose the reward you want and then at the end of the campaign, 33 principles will be sent to you.
Here are more examples of meatsmithery:
The Mercilous Feast
Chicken Harvest Class
Blood Sausage
The Butcher's Benefit
Sheep Harvest Testimonial
Moon Valley Organics Testimonial
New Rewards
I have added two video projects to the campaign. With the funding, we will be able to create two series:
Homestead Harvest: Poultry
First, we want to reward the universe by creating a free video series on processing poultry called Homestead Harvest: Poultry. We will harvest chickens, ducks and turkeys. The first video will cover the traditional slaughter and the second will be on peasant cookery and preservation. This series will be available for free online.
Homestead Harvest: Beef
Secondly, we will create a beef series of three videos covering slaughter, butchery and cookery/curing. Homestead Harvest: Beef will be available for free only to our Kickstarter backers.
And More
You will find in our rewards column that we have added several rewards pertaining to these winsomely instructional videos. If you contribute at certain levels, you may find yourself getting top billing or actually being a cast member.
We are also offering The Butcher’s Salt in the expanded form as a PDF and the chance for you to select the topic for one of the next five chapters.
Feel free to
get in touch with us to learn more about what we do and why we are taking this step.
Thank you,
Brandon
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