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Sheep Harvesting Workshop with John O’Mara

March 13 @ 8:00 am - March 15 @ 5:00 pm

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This event is sponsored by a Fibershed Northern California Producer or a Fibershed Affiliate. Please search for host details within the listing for more event details.
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This is a workshop dedicated to learning how to humanely harvest sheep and make use of the whole animal. We will demonstrate how to ethically harvest and process sheep only using a knife. We will explore the many uses of organ meats, intestines for sausage-making, blood, and bones in an attempt to imbue the participants with these skills to return to their lives as part of their skillsets.  We will collaboratively honor the death of the sheep and explore the many facets of our lives that are fed by our ancient relationship to sheep.  We will eat our way through the process and learn how to break down the carcasses using seam butchery which only requires a small knife.
This class is intended for people wanting to harvest their own animals, process roadkill, and become more familiar with how ruminants are put together, and how our relationship to them has and continues to evolve over time. Participants will be able to take meat home, gamble with astragalus bones, and have the knowledge and know-how to replicate the process.
*Benefits means you will get to take meat home with you, come prepared with a cooler.  Meat will be split up amongst those who opt in.  Proceeds go to support shepherds in the village of Umm al-Khair, in the West Bank of Palestine through the Center for Jewish Non-Violence (see cjnv.org for more info).
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