NOVEMBER 10TH-12TH 2023
Join Hand Hewn Farm at Shirefolk Farm for this 3-day Whole-Hog workshop. Starting with a live hog and ending with prosciutto and everything in between. This workshop is built to offer students the full spectrum of the pig, from raising pigs to on-farm slaughter and butchering and into the world of starting to cure meats at home.
DAY ONE NOV 10TH
- Meet and Greet
- Poem reading and toast to the pig
- Humane dispatch and blood collection
- Scald and scraping
- Viscera removal
- Organ prep
- Casing cleaning
- Blood Sausage making
- Head inspection and prep
DAY TWO NOV 11TH
- Basic knife handling and sharpening
- Carcass inspection
- Leaf Lard removal and rendering
- Hands-on butchering
- Cooking Pork discussion
- Liver sausage
- Making pork stock and its uses
- Packaging meat for the freezer
DAY THREE NOV 12TH
- The basics of curing meat
- How to use curing salts and if you need to
- Bacon cure formulations
- Dry curing hams
- Cold smoking bacon
- Epic Charcuterie Lunch