• Irish Mike Smith’s Farm Table Podcast

  • By: Michael Smith
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Irish Mike Smith’s Farm Table Podcast

By: Michael Smith
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  • Join me around the farm table where our conversations primarily center around farming on a small scale.
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  • Episode 22: Brandon Sheard of The Farmstead Meatsmith

    Episode 22: Brandon Sheard of The Farmstead Meatsmith
    Sep 26 2024
    Today I am excited to have Brandon Sheard from The Farmstead Meatsmith website and farm community. I have been a member of their online program for several years and have learned so much about growing animals responsibly, butchering, curing, smoking and preserving. They have been an inspiration to my wife and I both in faith and in what it takes to build a responsible faith-centric farmstead. Today Brandon and I cover a wide range of topics that have a consistent thread through them on faith and of course farming and how they intersect in our lives. For full show notes please visit https://www.lakejoyfarmstead.com/podcast-meatsmith SHOW NOTES
    • I would like for to share your individual faith journey and how it has intersected with farming (or completed)
    • When someone tells you that consuming beef is bad for the environment, what is your reaction and how would you respond?
    • Natural order is used a lot in your talks, tell us more about what that means in general, our relationship with God, and you personally
    • Rosary and other meditation, even the liturgy itself as meditation - And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
    • PIGS - "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." — Winston Churchill.
    MORE INFORMATION For more information on the Farmstead Meatsmiths, check out their website where you will find links to their on-farm classes, upcoming speaking engagements, as well as access to their online library of both free and paid content. There are dozens of videos and the online forums is rich with great content provided by the Sheard's and so many others.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 21: Anna Sakawsky of the House and Homestead

    Episode 21: Anna Sakawsky of the House and Homestead
    Sep 12 2024
    Today on the podcast I am excited to have Anna Sakawsky, creator of www.thehouseandhomestead.com as well as the editor of Homestead Living magazine. Anna and her family live in the middle of Vancouver Island and have maximized their homesteading space on a smallish piece of land and have made it their mission to inspire others to start homesteading right where they are and with whatever they have. Anna's passion for her family and the homesteading lifestyle they have created are infectious. Make sure you check out the show notes at lakejoyfarmstead.com/podcast-anna SHOW NOTES
    • What is Anna and families back story? How did you get to Vancouver Island?
    • How did you get started (and why) with your homestead and that way of life?
    • When communicating your story/message what would you describe as your specialty/focus? What would your 'elevator speech' sound like?
    • What makes your homestead website and classes different from other homesteaders? What makes yours unique?
    • What is it like in Canada/Vancouver Island specifically when homesteading? Weather? Landscape? Openness (or not) of community? How is this way of life being received there?
    • You have a membership and courses. Tell us about them. What will we find?
    • You had your own magazine. Tell us about that and what transitions have been made in that space.
    MORE INFORMATION To find out more information about Anna and her work you can check out www.thehouseandhomestead.com and you can follow Anna on Instagram and download her eBook here. If you want to find out more information and register for next years "Modern Homesteading" conference in Coeur d'Alene, ID you can check that out here: www.modernhomesteading.com Anna is the editor of an in print and digital magazine (where I too have been fortunate to contribute to). You can find out more information and subscribe here: homesteadliving.com Anna referenced the following additional resources: Melissa K. Norris' Pioneering Today. Book by Jill Winger: Old Fashioned on Purpose: Cultivating a Slower more Joyful Life as well as her vlog www.theprairiehomestead.com. Book by Jonathan Haidt: The Anxious Generation: How the Greatest Wiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. The Man in Arena Quote - Theodore Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, sot that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - T Roosevelt
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Episode 20: Darron Marzolf, 4th Generation Butcher

    Episode 20: Darron Marzolf, 4th Generation Butcher
    Aug 23 2024
    Today I am excited to have Darron Marzolf of Falling River Meats, a 4th generation butcher from the Puget Sound. We discuss the history of the butcher business in his family, how things have changed since his family started, and how small farmers can work better with local butchers. We then dive deep into a fun conversation about various cuts of beef and pork that have many different names based on the cut itself, culture and more. You will laugh and I hope learn a lot about why partnering with the right butcher can make a big difference on your farm. SHOW NOTES
    1. Tell me the history of the butcher business in your family
    2. How have things changed since your family started?
    3. Discuss the difference between WDA and USDA slaughterhouse facilities
    4. How can the small farmer work better with guys like you?
    5. Walk us through the classic butcher of a beef and a pig. What are a few differences between US style butchering of these animals and other cultures?
    6. What are the “butcher cuts” and how have they changed over the years
    7. When a family buys a share of beef or pork, they are getting cuts that seem to have been forgotten over time, cuts like chuck roast, eye of the round, country style ribs (pork) and so on. Why did that happen and what do you tell people on how to cook them especially for a mid week real-life meal.
    8. When you cut open a beef or pork, what are you looking for? How do you know that the beef or pork was raised well?
    9. What would you like to tell us small farmers who are trying to reengage homestead practices? We want to feed our own families and raise some food for others in our community, how can we be different from the big slaughterhouses?
    MORE INFORMATION

    Custom Butcher: www.marzolfmeats.com

    Visit the Falling River Meats butcher shop in North Bend at 108 W North Bend Way, North Bend, WA 98045 or at www.fallingrivermeats.com.
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    1 hr and 24 mins

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