Workshop

A four-day, hands-on class of pork butchering, history, charcuterie, salumi, and cookery. Eat like royalty and learn with us!

This workshop is for 3 days at Anderson Farms in Granville, OH hosted by Hand Hewn Farms. Meals will be provided during class. We will cover everything from dispatching the hog, processing it, and getting it ready to butcher, all the way through to the butchering process and into the cooking/curing process for nose to [...]

You hear a lot these days about knowing your farmer. Many don’t understand the full process of what it takes to put meat on the table. If you’d like to gain a deeper respect and appreciation for where your food comes from, COME JOIN US along with Doug Wharton and Andy Lane of Hand Hewn [...]

Join us at Farm One Eleven outside of Wheeling, WV. This class is 3 days of farm-to-table excellence. Learn all the needed skills to take a live pig from 'pasture to plate'. Each day focuses on specific parts of the process to help students thoughtfully understand the process from beginning to end over three fabulous [...]

If you are a Foodie, interested in nutritious food, a culinary junkie, wanting to learn more about charcuterie, or exploring the idea of raising pigs. Then this is the course for you. We are combining our 3-day Whole-Hog Workshop with our Charcuterie Workshop for a Four Day Master Class- with lots of options for attending [...]

September 21st - 24th: A 4-day, hands-on immersive class that focuses on the home production of cured meats in Italy (Salumi). 4 days of farm-to-table meals are included with your purchase (the final day is shortened, only two meals)   •Day One - Humane slaughter, scalding, scraping, and intro to curing •Day Two - Butchering [...]

October 19th – October 22nd, 2023 at Hand Hewn Farm in Fresno, Ohio A four-day, hands-on class of pork butchering, history, charcuterie, salumi, and cookery. Eat like royalty and learn with us! All Farm-to-Table Meals included (breakfast/lunch/dinner)

Oct 27, 28, 29 (Fri, Sat, Sun) 2023 Andy Lane and Doug Wharton of Hand Hewn Farm in OH will guide us through the steps to take “pig to plate” in a respectful and culinarily excellent manner over three days. (Day 1) - Field Harvest: Introductions over coffee Harvest Lunch Clean head, casings, etc. Blood [...]

Join us at Hand Hewn Farm for an exclusive event featuring the German Master Butcher, Felix Geiger. Dive into the world of German sausage making and unlock the secrets of authentic Wurst craftsmanship. Event: Savor the Wurst: A Culinary Exploration of German Sausage Making Date: November 2nd-5th, 2023 Location: Hand Hewn Farm Ticket Availability: Limited [...]

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 [...]

During this hands-on workshop, we will focus on a forest-raised heritage hog from Woodland Ridge Farm, walking through the entire process of how to efficiently, beautifully, and practically take a hog from pasture to plate ethically and humanely. Day One (Nov. 17th): We will gather for the solemn act of dispatching the hog and collecting the blood, [...]