Episode 69: Bonus Episode with Daniel Firth Griffith and the Robinia Institute in The Conversationalist Webinar Series.

A Meatsmith Harvest

In this episode, Brandon talks with Daniel Firth Griffith of the Robinia Institute in The Conversationalist Webinar Series. The topics discussed range from descaling agriculture to Aristotle.

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Show Notes:

• Our move to Oklahoma, 1:39
• Intro to The Conversationalist Webinar Series, 7:07
• Pursuing a philosophical goal, 12:09
• Regionally specific habits, 23:17

The PNW has no ham curing traditions, 25:56

• Descaling agriculture, 29:55

The high demand for butchery in every state, 38:10

Transparency of slaughter, 43:10

• What does it mean to be a good slaughterman, 47:18
• Liberating the harvest, 55:23
• Descaling all the way back to the family farm, 57:07

Carry all the responsibility yourself vs. dependence, 1:00:00

• Where can people learn more about harvesting livestock, 1:03:18
• Yearn for tradition in building, etc, 1:06:28
• Forming dependence, 1:15:08

Links for Episode 69:

• Robinia Institute - The Conversationalist webinar series https://robiniainstitute.com/the-conversationalist-webinar-series/
• Wendell Berry quote from Nature as Measure https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9809187-nature-as-measure

“An agriculture using nature…as its measure would approach the world in the manner of a conversationalist. It would not impose its vision and its demands upon a world that it conceives of as a stockpile of raw materials. …Now we must think of marriage.”

• Rene Descartes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes
• Aristotle https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9438.The_Basic_Works_of_Aristotle
• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16619.Democracy_in_America