Episode 106: Our New Dairy Cow & the Stages of Pertussis, Part 1
Release Date: 04/18/2025
Episode 107: Our New Dairy Cow & the Stages of Pertussis, Part 2
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 107: 0:00 Intro & the paroxysmal stage of Pertussis 8:08 Staying up every night to get our baby through the paroxysmal stage 11:57 Vitamin C vs antibiotics 14:17 The paroxysmal cough & immunity to Pertussis 16:34 Our Pertussis timeline 19:57 Recommended vitamin C and how we administered it to our kids 37:58 Record keeping during Pertussis 40:12 Helping our baby cough...
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Episode 106: Our New Dairy Cow & the Stages of Pertussis, Part 1
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 the stages of Pertussis. Timestamps/Topics for Episode 106: 0:00 Intro & our new dairy cow, Georgie 12:55 Difficulty of milking twice a day 16:03 Weight on a dairy cow & Georgie being so chill 22:24 Get a cow for the health of your pigs 25:08 Our classes: Dry aging beef & zero trim from beef butchery 28:11 Our beef classes are really cookery classes 33:37 You will see the kill...
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Episode 105: Strong Immunity & Health with Real Food, Part 2
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 important is fleeing the city and starting a homestead as a Christian family? Plus plenty of rabbit trails like the importance of the medieval pig, how conventional health is fear-based, how isolating in our family is impossible, how real food isn't debatable; it's dogma, and our general health plan. Stay tuned for episodes 106 and 107 for the details of exactly how we fought pertussis without...
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Episode 104: Strong Immunity and Health with Real Food, Part 1
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 for our health and immunity. Timestamps/Topics for Episode 104: 0:00 Intro & Family Pig II goodies 5:46 Whole hog utilization 8:19 Chitterlings: a digression 19:50 Things we're making & doing at the Family Pig II 22:54 Filming To Torch a Pig for Meatsmith Membership 25:36 Testimonial from Graham Meriwether 32:22 From traditions to culinary art to immortal souls 38:24 Eat real food...
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Episode 103 - From Pertussis to Pleasure to the Fourth End of Manual Labor, Part 2.
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 suited to these four ends, and the duties of our state in life. Timestamps/Topics for Episode 103: 0:00 The seeming contradiction of Pleasure 7:47 Pleasurable flavor to feed the family well and in delight 9:15 Pleasure is an establishing of our nature in a thing that is 'becoming.' 15:37 Becoming is an ontological word 20:00 Intellectual Pleasure & deformed appetites 24:56...
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Episode 102: From Pertussis to Pleasure to the Fourth End of Manual Labor, Part 1.
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 102: 0:00 Intro & raising teenagers 17:06 Germ theory 27:57 Pertussis experience 38:09 Family Pig & Family Lamb classes in Spring 44:02 The exceptional meals at our classes 48:12 Liturgy of the Land conference 51:25 Why homestead? Links for Episode 102: Vitamin C for Whooping Cough by Dr. Suzanne Humphries The Importance Of The Rural Life: According To The Philosophy Of St....
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Episode 101: Pursuing the Catholic Faith Through Agriculture & Family with Ted Stiritz.
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 to the Principle. Timestamps/Topics for Episode 101: 0:00 Class announcements & organic feed 10:05 The identity of being a father & delighting in your children 24:50 Ted's first experience at Clear Creek Abby 30:40 Farming and humility 36:31 Strengthening of the will through farming and family 43:08 Two things we need to lead a good life: To act in virtue and a sufficiency of...
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Episode 100: Farming, Wine, & Modernity with Kelsey Beck Fernandez of Finca Fernandez, Part 2
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 varieties, wine in the Mass, the Protestant Reformation, differences between Protestants and Catholics, authority vs. power, and living in a nation of tyrants. Timestamps/Topics for Episode 100: 0:00 Biodynamic agriculture & paganism 3:42 The diversion of agriculture equals diversion of culture 8:15 Traditions is 'that which is passed down' 11:54 Were born materialists 16:15 Kelsey's experience...
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Episode 99: Farming, Wine, & Modernity with Kelsey Beck Fernandez of Finca Fernandez, Part 1
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 slaughter. Looking for more Meatsmith knowledge? Join our online membership or come to an in-person class: Hands-On Harvest Classes - Come to one of our harvest classes on our homestead in Oklahoma. We offer pork, beef, lamb, and goose harvest classes in the Spring and Fall. Spots are limited to just eight students per class to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and...
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Episode 98: Catholic Farm Dad Stuff with Mark Wertin, Part 2
A Meatsmith Harvest
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 pigs. Also, Mark wrote and performed a beautiful sonnet about shooting pigs for Brandon. Looking for more Meatsmith knowledge? Join our online membership or come to an in-person class: Hands-On Harvest Classes - Come to one of our harvest classes on our homestead in Oklahoma. We offer pork, beef, lamb, and goose harvest classes in the Spring and Fall. Spots are limited to just eight students...
info_outlineIn 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 the stages of Pertussis.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 106:
0:00 Intro & our new dairy cow, Georgie
12:55 Difficulty of milking twice a day
16:03 Weight on a dairy cow & Georgie being so chill
22:24 Get a cow for the health of your pigs
25:08 Our classes: Dry aging beef & zero trim from beef butchery
28:11 Our beef classes are really cookery classes
33:37 You will see the kill during our classes
38:12 Back to our experience with whooping cough
41:00 Hypocrisy and fear changing beliefs
46:05 Take the rational approach and do your own research
48:58 St Thomas' ideas on humans as the rational animal
52:00 Don't go hunt down your neighbors because they got you sick
55:19 There are three stages in Pertussis
Links for Episode 106:
- Mommy Diagnostics (The Art of Taking Care of Your Family) by Shonda Parker. https://a.co/d/ah1BOlc
- Vitamin C for Whooping Cough by Dr. Suzanne Humphries https://deeprootsathome.com/vitamin-c-for-whooping-cough-by-suzanne-humphries-md/
Looking for more Meatsmith knowledge? Join our online membership or come to an in-person class:
- Hands-On Harvest Classes - Come to one of our harvest classes on our homestead in Oklahoma. We offer pork, beef, lamb, and goose harvest classes in the Spring and Fall. Spots are limited to just eight students per class to keep the hands-on experience undiluted. Jump on this chance and sign up today! Farmsteadmeatsmith.com/upcoming-classes/
- Meatsmith Membership - We created an online community and resource for homesteaders and farmers. It serves all those who want to cook and eat well. We offer the fruit of our labors (and our kitchen) from more than fifteen years of experience, and our Membership community of more than six hundred is an invaluable digital resource. The only one of its kind in the country, Meatsmith Membership provides an earnest and winsome approach to domestic livestock raising, slaughter, butchery, curing, cookery, and charcuterie. Join today and partner with us in growing your home around the harvest. Monthly memberships are $17.49/month plus a $29.99 sign-up fee. Or purchase an Annual membership for $189.49/year with no sign-up fee, saving you $50.38. Farmsteadmeatsmith.com/membership/