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Episode 86 - Of Land Hurricanes, Candle Light, and Large Living, Part 2
In this episode, we chat about soft communism, weaning yourself from the comforts of urban life, and fasting. We continue our community vs family conversation, making a case for owning a bigger home, bodies needing space, and the duty to teach your children.  
 
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith. Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this November and December and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are November 16th-18th, November 30th - December 2nd, and December 14th-16th. Tickets are $1,530 per person, with a limited capacity of just eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/ Our last 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest of the year will be October 5th-7th. Sign up today on our website at https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/3-day-complete-lamb-harvest-course/ Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon. Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing! 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.   Timestamps/Topics for Episode 86: 0:00 Intro
1:04 Soft communism 
5:07 Fasting could be the first step toward farming
16:35 Community vs faith/family continued
21:43 We need larger living spaces because bodies need space
34:21 Families have a right to a big home
37:50 It's your duty to teach your children
48:15 Contemplating a big move
 
Links for Episode 86:
The Rulers of Russia and the Russian Farmers by Father Denis Fahey https://store.catholicism.org/the-rulers-of-russia-and-the-russian-farmers.html Ross McKnight of Backwater Foie Gras https://backwaterfoiegras.com The Definitive Guide to Catholic Fasting & Abstinence by Matthew Plese https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/110777550-the-definitive-guide-to-catholic-fasting-abstinence?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=5S7o614tUE&rank=1 Charlotte Mason's homeschool curriculum https://simplycharlottemason.com

In this episode, we discuss recent extreme weather, how much 'rejection of technology' is reasonable, what technology keeps you from learning, and attending the Mass by candlelight.
 
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith. Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this November and December and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are November 16th-18th, November 30th - December 2nd, and December 14th-16th. Tickets are $1,530 per person, with a limited capacity of just eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/the-family-pig/ Our last 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest of the year will be October 5th-7th. Sign up today on our website at https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/3-day-complete-lamb-harvest-course/ Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon. Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing! 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.   Timestamps/Topics for Episode 85: 0:00 Intro
1:02 History of our intro quote
7:55 Land hurricane
12:23 The Sacred Heart
21:45 Fall Pig and Lamb classes
31:28 Hearth & Field and rejecting technology
34:43 The Mass by candlelight
46:00 Smoking meat has lost its substantial form
55:09 We Started our business without much tech
 
Links for Episode 83:
Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery by Jane Grigson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575014.Charcuterie_and_French_Pork_Cookery The Mass and Its Folklore by John Hobson Matthews https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40707662-the-mass-and-its-folklore?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_22 Backwater Foie Gras https://backwaterfoiegras.com Hearth and Field https://hearthandfield.com 

In this episode, we discuss the gift that is Community, Nature, Grace, & Original Sin, farming in reparation to God, the uselessness of smartphones, and the virtue of pork chops.  
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith. Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 1st-3rd and June 15-17th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/ Our 2-Day Martinmas Goose Harvest class will be November 10th-11th this year. Sign up today on our website at https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/ Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon. Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing! 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/.  
Topics for Episode 84:
Community doesn't save your soul, 1:01 
Community & friendship can concur, 4:22 
Choosing between community, worship, and land, 7:41 
Nature, Grace, & Original Sin, 13:29 
Farming is reparation to God, 17:33  
Choose worship, 29:06 
Communities formed around pilgrimages, 35:31 
Smartphones are immensely useless, 43:00 
The virtue of pork chops, 45:02 
Links for Episode 84:
The Community, essay from Flee to the Fields: The Founding Fathers of the Catholic Land Movement https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/919932.Flee_to_the_Fields Fr. Moran https://www.angelus.online/angelus_online_-_may/june_2019/cultural_revolution_cultural_counter-revolution Dr. Richard Meloche of the Alcuin Institute Fr. Mateo Crawley https://www.leafletonline.com/jesus-king-of-love-by-fr-mateo-crawley-boevey-35478  Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira https://www.traditioninaction.org/index.htm "Who is like God?” Rebuilding Catholic Social Order https://onepeterfive.com/who-is-like-god-rebuilding-catholic-social-order/ The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3924392-the-physiology-of-taste Catholic Manual of Civility by Marian Therese Horvat https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6778686-catholic-manual-of-civility?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=ffCUxQdDV2&rank=1 George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation by https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6466.George_Washington_s_Rules_of_Civility_Decent_Behavior_in_Company_and_Conversation?ref=nav_sb_ss_2_17

In this episode, we chat about raising beef and dairy cows, blood bread and modern food, and we continue our discussion on Community vs. Society. 
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith. Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 8th-10th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/ Our 2-Day Martinmass Goose Harvest class will be November 10th-11th this year. Sign up today on our website at https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/ Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon. Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing! 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/. Topics for Episode 83: Beef breeds for our classes, 3:32 
Sheep husbandry, 13:52
Goose class and Family Pig classes, 15:47
Raising dairy cows, 17:51 
Blood bread, 23:53 
Modern food tricks us into eating more, 28:33  
Back to Community vs. Society, 39:25  
Feed both the body and spirit, 40:28 
Story from Physiology of Taste by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 42:59 
Eating in the context of natural order & hierarchy, 50:29  
The etymology of Community, 52:20  
Losing community to unity, 1:03:32 
Excess of Community on the Right and Left, 1:05:55 
An authority that distributes common goods, 1:11:48 
 
Links for Episode 83:
Cottage Economy by William Cobbett https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/243534.Cottage_Economy Jane Grigson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/575014.Charcuterie_and_French_Pork_Cookery The Nordic Cookbook by Magnus Nilsson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25208269-the-nordic-cookbook? Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year by Alban Butler https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244823.Lives_of_the_Saints?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=VUsdBnpHvd&rank=2 The Physiology of Taste: Or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3924392-the-physiology-of-taste English from the Roots Up: Help for Reading, Writing, Spelling, and S.A.T. Scores: Greek Latin, Vol. 1 by Joegil K. Lundquist https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337745.English_from_the_Roots_Up?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_25 The Village, film by M. Night Shyamalan https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/  

Episode 82: Community vs. Society Part 2
In this episode we chat about community, its different forms, positives and negatives, its lack of definition, its function in ideology, and what it offers. We compare it to society, how the family is the essential unit of society, and the grace family provides to a community. 
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith. Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 8th-10th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/ Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon. Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing! 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/. Topics for Episode 82: Meatsmith is a social business, 1:01 Question from a fellow meatsmith, 3:15 How big of a factor does community play, 6:10 The communities we've been in, 9:05 Criticism of 'community,' 14:30 How community functions in ideology, 17:47 Community is a 'talismanic' word, 21:44 Feeling isolated as a farmer, 29:45 What does society offer the family?, 31:19 Society prevents isolationism, 32:05 Rugged, individualist, perseverance; 33:03 The family is the essential unit of society, 35:33 You don't get grace through community, 39:00 Sacramental marriage, 39:13 The temporal order cannot survive on its own terms, 41:11 Community gets that kind of grace from the family, 43:35 The natural virtue of Patria, 43:55 Duties to society, 45:00 Sharing spiritual goods vs. material goods, 48:40 What is a common good?, 49:44  
Links for Episode 82:
Talismanic Words and the Anti-Church Agenda https://onepeterfive.com/talismanic-words-anti-church-agenda/ Father Thomas Crean, Integralism & the Common Good of https://youtu.be/ZDrxRaFI55E Tradition, Family, and Property (founder Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira) https://www.tfp.org/tradition-family-and-property/. Recommended article: What is Organic  Society? https://www.traditioninaction.org/OrganicSociety/A_002_OrganicSociety_PCO.htm Tradition in Action https://traditioninaction.org

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. 
Announcements:
Support our podcast on Patreon! Production of each episode takes hours of work, filming, and editing. Becoming a patron can help us keep our episode quality high and allow us to continue filming. Become a patron today at https://www.patreon.com/meatsmith. Come to our 3-Day Family Lamb Harvest class this June and use your hands to turn four lambs into kitchen-sized lamb cuts, sausage, and charcuterie. The dates are June 8th-10th, and tickets are $1,390. The class is limited to eight students to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. So jump on this chance and sign-up today! https://farmsteadmeatsmith.com/product/martinmas-goose-harvest/ Meatsmith Membership -- a gift that gives all year long! More than 45 Harvest Films by Brandon. Forum topics are now categorized for easy browsing! 60-day free trial available! Use the Newsletter Special option on our sign-up page ad apply the promo code 60daytrial at checkout. Sign-up for Meatsmith Membership at FarmsteadMeatsmith.com/product/membership/. 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/