Episode 22: Brandon Sheard of The Farmstead Meatsmith

Today I am excited to have Brandon Sheard from The Farmstead Meatsmith website and farm community. I have been a member of their online program for several years and have learned so much about growing animals responsibly, butchering, curing, smoking and preserving. They have been an inspiration to my wife and I both in faith and in what it takes to build a responsible faith-centric farmstead. Today Brandon and I cover a wide range of topics that have a consistent thread through them on faith and of course farming and how they intersect in our lives. For full show notes please visit https://www.lakejoyfarmstead.com/podcast-meatsmith SHOW NOTES

• I would like for to share your individual faith journey and how it has intersected with farming (or completed)
• When someone tells you that consuming beef is bad for the environment, what is your reaction and how would you respond?
• Natural order is used a lot in your talks, tell us more about what that means in general, our relationship with God, and you personally
• Rosary and other meditation, even the liturgy itself as meditation - And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.
• PIGS - "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." — Winston Churchill.

MORE INFORMATION For more information on the Farmstead Meatsmiths, check out their website where you will find links to their on-farm classes, upcoming speaking engagements, as well as access to their online library of both free and paid content. There are dozens of videos and the online forums is rich with great content provided by the Sheard's and so many others.