Women-led animal slaughter workshop.
Here at the Meatriarchy we spend a lot of time wondering about our relationship to animals, food, life, and the art of killing. We believe that it is not enough to kill "efficiently" and "process" the animal well. Instead, we explore how we can weave our lives to the mysteries of generosity, reciprocity, relationality, and humility. We attempt to be students of our gratitude, our joys, our indebtedness, and our griefs.
We will work to harvest these animals with grace, compassion, sorrow, and love. To give thanks for their lives and the lives of their ancestors. To respect the enormous gifts they give by learning how to tend to them in fullness and in beauty. And to learn how to nourish and sustain the health of their families.
This is a workshop for those yearning for a more magickal, spirited, mysterious, and mycelial approach to animal slaughter. It is ancestrally informed and animistic in principle, with ceremony, song, and storytelling sewn into the fabric of the class.
Let us learn how to be present and attentive to the thresholds.
This is a full hoof-to-table class, but extends far beyond the reaches of most conventional approaches to butchering. The workshop will teach the practical basics of how to tend to, catch, kill, gut, skin, butcher, grind, wrap, cure, and preserve all of your animal. We specialize in gourmet preparations of the offal, to encourage folks to eat quite literally everything.
We emphasize off grid techniques using minimal equipment to keep animal processing accessible to even the beginners.
The Honorable Harvest includes many other non-food uses of animal parts as well. We cover crafts of hides, bones, hooves, bladders, pericardiums, skulls, and more.
Each student will leave the class feeling confident in slaughtering and attending to all of the gifts of the animal.
Class includes:
Three days of hands-on instruction with Harmony Cronin
Every day a ranch-to-table lunch and dinner will be cooked up for the class using animals we’ve killed, fresh organic vegetables from our garden, and other organic staples (a great opportunity to learn our favorite recipes, tips, and tricks!)
A canvas tent with wood stove will be provided for communal sleeping
Tasty samples to take home as well
What to Bring:
A sharp knife - We use Victorinox 6 inch boning knife and 6 inch lamb skinner for everything we do. Or you can bring one that you feel connected to. If you are bringing a used knife, make sure it’s sharp!
Bedding
Be prepared for colder weather i.e. sleeping bag, extra layers, hats. (We will provide wood for heating.)
Breakfast items and drinks
Two Price Brackets:
Sliding scale $500.00-$700.00
This price range provides an opportunity of 2 students per animal, which means that it is not guaranteed you will kill. Both students will work to process the animal together for the duration of the class.
Sliding scale $800.00-$1300.00
This price range guarantees that you will kill and process an animal from start to finish on your own
Discounted work-trade spots available. Please email gatheringwaysschool@gmail.com for information.