In this episode, we recap our Fall harvest season, all the classes we taught, fasting for advent and feasting over Christmas, preserving and losing meat, our upcoming beef and lamb classes, and a bit on raising rabbits.

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Topics for Episode 81:

• Can you visit the farmstead?, 2:40
• Limping through our busy season and Christmas, 5:50
• Burdened by the abundance of the harvest season, the obligation of feasting, and advent, 8:00
• Efficient means of dealing with the EPIC quantities of meat, 17:40
• Losing meat, 20:00
• Blood bread, 22:45
• Our 2-day BEEF class that focuses on cookery, 32:00
• 3-Day LAMB Harvest class, 37:12
• Raising rabbits, 45:45

Links for Episode 81:

• The Nordic Cookbook by Magnus Nilsson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25208269-the-nordic-cookbook
• Our upcoming classes https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/upcoming-classes/