Second Butchering Class @ Olympic Provisions - 9.12.2010

Due to popular demand, join us for butchery class number two: Peach fed pigs, butchery basics and the art of making fresh sausage.


Thanks so much to everyone who signed up for our very first butchery class and for expressing such interest in and enthusiasm for it!  Susan and Wolfgang have another beautiful peach-fed pig for us, so we're going to offer the same class the following weekend as well.  Eli Cairo and his right-hand man, Josh Graves (formerly of Fleischer's Meats), will go over whole animal butchery with hands-on demonstrations and the basics of fresh sausage making.  Attendees will leave with a well-rounded grasp of butchery basics, along with a couple choice cuts of meat and some fresh sausages.  Class is limited to twenty attendees.  


Date:  Sunday, September 12th
Location: Olympic Provisions, 107 SE Washington
Time:  2:00 - 5:00pm
Cost:  $125.00 


Please call or email to sign up for the class and for more information.  


The fine print:  Payment for class must be made upon sign-up.  We accept VISA, MC, AMEX and DISCOVER.  Full refunds for cancellations will be granted until Friday, August 27, 2010.  Cancellations made after this date will forfeit any refund.   


Visit our website:
www.olympicprovisions.com 


Give us a call:
503.954.3663


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BUTCHERING CLASS THIS SATURDAY!

I know this is short notice, but I just got the word that the butchering class at Greener Pastures is happening this weekend. Here's the deal. Two classes will run consecutively starting at 9am on Saturday. The first class is will cover the slaughtering process and the second class will cover breaking down a carcass and meat cutting. The classes will be working with sheep as the animal subject. The classes will be $25 each, so $50 for a day of first class butchering lessons. Nice.

Oh yeah. Pack a lunch if you're planning on attending both classes.

I'll be out of town this weekend, so I can't make it...dang. But I hope some of you folks can get out to the farm and get some hands on time with Jon and his sheep. If you go, please post a comment here and let me know how it went.

Contact Jon @ Greener Pastures to get signed up for the classes.
(360)833-1917 or greenerpasturesfarm at gmail dot com

Butchering Class Update

Here are some further details on the butchering class I spoke of in an earlier post. Check out the class price...$25 per class!! You'll never find a deal like this anywhere else! Also, it seems that the Greener Pasture folks don't currently have any livestock ready for slaughter at the moment, so they're appealing to you folks for demonstration subjects to use for the class. Contact them if you have a couple of sheep ready for processing. Hopefully that detail will be worked out soon so we can get a firm date on the classes! Read the following note from Ronda to get the latest scoop on the classes and/or to get her contact info:

Jon is willing to teach 2 generic classes on slaughtering and butchering wild game or medium sized livestock, using sheep or goats as the sample. Because we don't have any livestock to butcher at this time, if someone has 2 sheep to be butchered, it would be best to hold the class on the premises of the owner of the livestock, and Jon would waive the fees for that person. If not, Jon will make other arrangements.

Slaughter Class: $25 per person
How to humanely kill the animal, bleed it out, skin and gut, and "hang" or age the meat. Keeping the meat as sanitary as possible under home conditions will be covered throughout the class, as will discussion of types of tools, and proper care of tools. Knife sharpening will also be covered; Jon can bring his bench grinder to show this. Hands on class participation will depend on the number of people.

Butchering Class: $25 per person
How to cut up the carcass and bone out the meat into practical portions. Hands on class participation will depend on the number of people.


Ronda Jemtegaard
360-833-1917
greenerpasturesfarm at gmail dot com

Butchering Class

I've been exchanging e-mails recently with Ronda Jemtegaard of Greener Pastures Farm in Camas. It seems that like many of us, the economic slowdown has affected their off-farm employment and they're looking for a way to generate some extra income. After some brainstorming with her husband, Jon Schulze, they have decided to share her Jon's extraordinary butchering knowledge with the public and generate some additional income by creating a series of classes on home butchering. They are still working out the particulars, but this promises to be a fantastic educational opportunity for anyone who wants to brush up on their butchering skills or the novice looking to learn the basics. I for one am seriously stoked about their project and look forward to attending.

More information will be coming, so check back for further details soon!

Here's a link to the Greener Pastures website if you'd like to learn a bit more about the farm, livestock, farming, or the Greener Pastures family (it's seriously chocked full of more info. than you can imagine and reading the website is an eduaction in itself!) :

Greener Pastures Farm