Whole Animal Processing Workshop

Description

Whole Animal Processing Workshop (3-day)

This course will teach you everything you need to know to make the most of your harvest. It starts with a respectful and humane dispatch of the animal, and then takes you through the various processing and uses for all the parts of the animal. The obvious uses are food from the meat, organs, and bone, but you will also learn how to tan the hide, make bone tools, use the sinew fibers, and various other useful items that you may have never thought of like durable cordage and rope from the intestines.

Students will learn:

• Humane and Respectful Dispatch
• Meat Processing
• Bone Broth
• Harvesting and Use of Animal Sinew
• Hide Tanning
• Various Tools
• Cordage

This workshop takes place outdoors in a desert setting with a Shade Cloud Shelter. Portable toilets and water will be available. There is no electricity or running water. Students may camp on site in the shelters of their choosing once the course starts, or at another location of your choosing. You may not camp on site the night prior to the event starting, and cannot remain and camp after course completion, so make arrangements to camp nearby for those occasions. Food will not be provided for the workshop. You should arrive each day having had breakfast. We will stop for a short lunch break most days, and food is available a reasonable distance away in Boulder. Training will typically be over in the evening giving you time to eat dinner and relax until class starts the next day.

Students should expect the potential for cold, wet weather, and primitive field conditions. Cadre and staff will ensure safety at all times during the course.

There is no required packing list for this workshop. Please bring adequate clothing, shelter, food, and snacks for the duration of the course. Limited resupply may be found in Boulder or nearby Escalante in the evenings.

Please see our course cancellation policy HERE