Join Us: The Kincentric Table
An invitation to become Human, an Earthling, via a Field Harvest this April.
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My friends, good afternoon.
The Land is frosty linen now, a mist hovering past autumn’s norm. Pray she is talking with you wherever you are; pray you are talking back. Walking with her.
This is a sacred and still time for our family, when the night dawns the dark early and the dark dusks late into the morning. A time of night on night with the Little Day in-between.
But this is not why I am writing. I have two items to acknowledge: one, an apology and the other, an opportunity.
First, the apology. I have found it completely and utterly beyond my capacity to write as of late. A novel overtook me and then the editing squashed my attention. Life here on Unshod will be picking back up with twice weekly posts, writings, and so much more starting shortly…
More information on the novel soon … !
Second, the opportunity. Tickets are now open for this Spring’s (4/4 - 4/6) Sacred Beef & Goat Harvest Class called The Kincentric Table. Click Here to learn more about this class! About the course….
This is a hands-on field harvesting and finer processing workshop!
Learn the Wildland’s pioneering field harvest technique that pairs sacred ecology, kinship, and low technology and spend days in our state-of-the-art processing center to learn how to harvest and process your family’s provisions with both ceremonial and educated skill.
In this 3-day, intimate class, we will become Earthlings. Together, we will work to unbind and untether ourselves from the uncreative sciences of today and learn our humanity through the sacred gift of the field harvest. No corrals, no cages, no fear.
If you are yearning to learn the sacred art of the field harvest and whole animal utilizing and processing, this is for you!
Using nothing but our hands and simple, human-scale tools, we will track the herd in over 400-acres of the Wildland and then harvest a Wildland bull and goat buck while they are yet with their herds, letting go of our control and allowing the herd's ceremony to rise and walk with us, amongst us, unabated.
We will cry together. We will light fires and eat while we work, honoring and learning what we honor.
From this space, we will then work to break down a 30-day dry aged bull and aged buck that were prepared in advance without creating any waste. In place of a 60% carcass yield that is common in processing today, we will learn how to utilize 100% of the animal, our cousin, continuing to honor each ligament, each muscle, each ounce of life that is waiting to be reborn. We will also begin the tanning and hide preserving process (fleshing, salting, and more).
By the class's end, you will leave with the inner confidence and physical know-how to harvest cattle and goats at home, kincentrically.
Scholarships and Financing available!
Click Here to learn more!
