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Episode 111: Milking Dairy & Meat Sheep with Rachel & Kyle Hester, Part 2
→ In this episode, Brandon asks Rachel and Kyle all his questions about sheep milking, sheep breeds, wool processing, minerals used for health, dewormer, and fencing for sheep. They also discuss…
Episode 110: Milking Dairy & Meat Sheep with Rachel & Kyle Hester, Part 1
In this episode, Brandon chats with sheep homesteaders Rachel & Kyle Hester about Romanian placinta cake, how the Hesters got into raw milk for health, sheep breeds for milking, how to start…
Episode 109: Getting a Dairy Cow With the Dougherty's, Part 2
In this episode, we chat with Shawn and Beth Dougherty about offering liberty and experiences to homeschooled teenagers, why the Doughertys stayed in Appalachia, the Dougherty's house fire and…
Episode 108: Getting a Dairy Cow With the Dougherty's
In this episode, we discussed small-scale vs. industrial-scale meat production, the ontological shift of food, the Dougherty's first dairy cow, a Catholic's view of suffering, the natural state of…
Episode 107: Our New Dairy Cow & the Stages of Pertussis, Part 2
In this episode, we discuss how we treated Pertussis in our family with vitamin C, how there's no one person or group we turn to for health advice, and the power of nutrition. Timestamps/Topics for…
Episode 106: Our New Dairy Cow & the Stages of Pertussis, Part 1
In this episode, we chat about our new dairy cow, Georgie, adjusting our lives around milking her, why we age the beef for our harvest classes in the walk-in for 30 days, and then we finally get into…
Episode 105: Strong Immunity & Health with Real Food, Part 2
In this episode, we run the gamut from sharing health resources, pathologically delicious food vs real food, and palette formation to old food traditions and recipes. We answer the question: How…
Episode 104: Strong Immunity and Health with Real Food, Part 1
In this episode, we chat about whole hog utilization, what we're teaching in the Family Pig II harvest class, the benefits of our online membership, and how, through real food, we take responsibility…
Episode 103 - From Pertussis to Pleasure to the Fourth End of Manual Labor, Part 2.
In this episode, we discuss the seeming contradiction of Pleasure, 'becoming goods', sensitive appetites vs. intellectual delights, the four ends of manual labor, how agriculture is particularly…
Episode 102: From Pertussis to Pleasure to the Fourth End of Manual Labor, Part 1.
In this episode, we chat about raising teenagers, weaponizing germ theory, our pertussis experience, our Spring harvest classes, and the Liturgy of the Land conference. Timestamps/Topics for…
Episode 101: Pursuing the Catholic Faith Through Agriculture & Family with Ted Stiritz.
In this episode, Brandon and Ted Stiritz talk about the identity of a father, delighting in your children, humility, strengthing of the will, how to live the Good Life, and moving from the Particular…
Episode 100: Farming, Wine, & Modernity with Kelsey Beck Fernandez of Finca Fernandez, Part 2
In this episode, Kelsey and Brandon chat about biodynamic agriculture, tradition, loss of culture, Kelsey's experience at our Foie Gras class with Backwater Foie Gras, growing regional grape…
Episode 99: Farming, Wine, & Modernity with Kelsey Beck Fernandez of Finca Fernandez, Part 1
In this episode, Kelsey and Brandon chat about farming and processing livestock in urban California, wine culture in Europe vs. the US, Kelsey's Family Pig class experience, and his first solo pig…
Episode 98: Catholic Farm Dad Stuff with Mark Wertin, Part 2
In this episode, Mark and Brandon chat more about smartphones, the value of mundane farm tasks, breeding Jersey milk cows and bulls, fencing for cows, and teaching folks (and your kids) to shoot…
Episode 97: Catholic Farm Dad Stuff with Mark Wertin, Part 1
In this episode, we chat about Mark's beginnings in farming and his experience as a dairyman, teaching children and preserving their innocence, and how smartphones are demonic. Timestamps/Topics…
Episode 94: Agrarian Thomistic Philosophy with Dr Richard Meloche, Part 2
Agrarian Thomistic Philosophy with Dr Richard Meloche, Part 2 In this episode, we continue our conversation with Dr. Richard Meloche on the use of natural elements in liturgies, the epistemological…
Episode 96: St Thomas & the Ends of Labor, Part 2
In this episode, we chat about symbolism and learning through analogy, rational creatures participating in the eternal law, Reason in exchange for physical protection, and the Four Ends of Labor. …
Episode 95: St Thomas & the Ends of Labor, Part 1
In this episode, we chat about our new baby, our kids keeping the fast, Easter week, St Thomas Aquinas's 'all knowledge comes through the senses' and De Regno, and reason vs. instinct. …
Episode 93: Agrarian Thomistic Philosophy with Dr Richard Meloche, Part 1
In episode 93, we chat with Dr. Richard Meloche of the Alcuin Institute about the music in our home, Thomistic philosophy, 'coming to farming' for the food, the spiritual parfait of Grace and Nature,…
Episode 92: The Virtue of Culling, Part 2
In this episode, we chat about affection for extraneous livestock, raising longhorns for our classes, how temperament is the most important thing with cows, harvesting a cow out of a ditch, culling…
