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How to Prepare Caul Fat

Posted by yellowbirchhobbyfarm Oct 12, 2016 homesteading, how-to, pigs, pork butchering, charcuterie, cooking, homesteading, nosetotail, offal, pigs, zerowaste 12 Comments

It’s pig butchering season here on the farm, and with it comes so much excitement, emotion, and inevitably, exhaustion. Those of you who have raised and butchered your own animal, you know that reverent feeling that comes over you during this time. When you hold in your hands a part of that animal, you don’t […]

Nose-to-Tail Eating: Marinated Pig Heart

Posted by yellowbirchhobbyfarm Jul 8, 2016 cast iron, homesteading, pigs, pork, recipes, Uncategorized animal husbandry, homestead kitchen, homesteading, nose to tail, offal, traditional recipes 5 Comments

Quite possibly the greatest service that you can offer an animal that is to be eaten- outside of seeing to it that they are well-fed, watered, sheltered, and cared for- is to let as little of it as possible go to waste. That isn’t always easy, especially in modern society where the meat we find […]