Sunday, July 7, 9 a.m.—4 p.m., Deer Harbor
from Learner Limbach
Respectful animal harvest workshop
Where has the connection to our food gone? How many people know where their last meal of meat came from? Many of us rarely know how the animal was raised, what it was fed, and how its like was taken. These are some questions you may have at this time in your life. Or you may have farm animals and want to continue learning about this delicate, yet crucial, aspect of animal husbandry.
“To me I feel many human beings who are given the opportunity to witness a life being taken become more present wit emotion and the respect for life. These days, by separating completely from the death and the life of what we eat, we seem to have lost our ancestral connection to the right relationship with animal harvesting and the natural world around us,” —Gabriel
We will be experiencing this workshop in an intimate group setting where we learn how to support one another during this process. Please join us to respectfully take the life of an animal and reconnect with this ancestral wisdom.
We will explore:
- The topic of our culture’s relationship with life and death
- Ways in which to respectfully take a life
- Tactics on field dressing and demonstration of basic skinning and uses of skin
- Gutting the animal and exploring physical anatomy and organs
- Different meat cut styles and uses
- Curing, storage and cooking with fire created from friction
- Different uses of all parts of the animal’s body (skin, bones, etc.)
Suggested donation is $100 and with conclude with a potluck dinner to celebrate.
Please RSVP by calling Gabriel at 805-729-7127, or via email.
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Yuck! GO VEGAN or at least VEGETARIAN!! An animal is still being killed needlessly!What CHOICE does it have????
Seems like a strange word to use. Crops are harvested, animals are slaughtered. This workshop is supposed to be about putting people in touch with where the meat comes from. Using a euphemism doesn’t help. It’s killing, not harvesting.
:-( Martin
Gabriel, you can become more present with emotion and experience more respect for life by allowing the animal to live. And you can save your fellow meat eaters $100 in the process. There’s nothing mystical about animal slaughter and no wisdom to gain by getting in touch with ‘ancestral connections.’ Slaughter is slaughter, no matter how you try and dress it up so that you can feel good about it.
I appreciate Gabriel’s offer to share his experience and know-how with others who do eat meat, and who care about doing so in a healthy and responsible way. No one is challenging or disrespecting anyone’s choice to be vegetarian.