Learn how to skin, dress, quarter and further butcher hoofed animals! In this workshop, we'll take apart a bison from Long Hollow Bison Farm in Hadley, learning about butchering, charcuterie and anatomy as we transform a whole, noble cousin of ours into food for us humans. All parts of the animal will be used, including organ meats, bones and blood. We will prepare sausage with the entrails and begin traditional methods of meat curing including salting, drying and smoking. Lastly, we will learn to use the sinew for string, hooves for glue and how to prepare the hide into a finished robe. Folks will be expected to roll their sleeves and participate. We'll roast some up there, and some (~20#) meat will be available to take home for participants. All this will be done, of course, in the respectful and open hearted context of interdependence.
The all day workshop runs from 9-5 on 4/12 & costs 120-150$ at Next Barn Over, Hadley.
To attend this workshop as a hands-on participant, but not get a meat-share is just 50-80$.
Put on by Ape and Ape, an on-site butchering co-op in the Valley. www.apeandape.com
Contact apeandapemass@gmail.com with questions, and to register. You must RSVP.
Bring a potluck lunch, a knife, water for the day, and prepare to be outside all day.
Note - as an attendee of the workshop, you are co-buying the bison, on the hoof, as a live animal. The workshop is not a 'meat CSA' nor sale of meat from Ape & Ape, LHBF, or NBO - it is an educational experience in which the bison is divided between co-owners, facilitated by Ape and Ape.
The all day workshop runs from 9-5 on 4/12 & costs 120-150$ at Next Barn Over, Hadley.
To attend this workshop as a hands-on participant, but not get a meat-share is just 50-80$.
Put on by Ape and Ape, an on-site butchering co-op in the Valley. www.apeandape.com
Contact apeandapemass@gmail.com with questions, and to register. You must RSVP.
Bring a potluck lunch, a knife, water for the day, and prepare to be outside all day.
Note - as an attendee of the workshop, you are co-buying the bison, on the hoof, as a live animal. The workshop is not a 'meat CSA' nor sale of meat from Ape & Ape, LHBF, or NBO - it is an educational experience in which the bison is divided between co-owners, facilitated by Ape and Ape.
