On Slaughtering Goats and Eating Lots of Meat

I feel like my life lately has been revolving around food. Between working at Seeley Farm, and working part-time at a grocery store, it's pretty much all I think about. A little while ago we headed over to Green Things Farm to watch them slaughter a few young goats. Being a meat eater, I decided long ago to never forgo a chance to see where my meat comes from and how it is killed. Last year I went to the same farm to help slaughter chickens. Killing goats is a little more intense, but not as bad as I thought it would be. There is just a lot of blood.

Ben after slaughtering the first goat.

The spectators.

You're next!

After the goats were good and dead, they cut the heads and feet off (which I heard were buried by the dogs and then dug up later to be carried around like a secret treasure they had forgotten about). I had to leave before the skinning and processing, but later that night they gave me one of the goat hides to tan! I wouldn't call the experience awesome, but it was an experience. 

 

After all the slaughter, it was time for some meat eating! Last weekend was the camp bacon festival put on by Zingerman's. They had free samples of bacon, bacon goody bags that had things like bacon mints and bacon toothpicks in them, and of course, bacon face paint!

 The bacon was so delicious that Dana and I went back for seconds, and the came back right before it ended for thirds. So much bacon, so little time.

   

Then a few nights ago Sarah and I went to a house warming party at her food professor's house. Needless to say the food was amazing.. the house was beautiful too, but oh my god the food!!

 

The next day Erica took me too Biercamp. It's down on south State by the Produce Station, and I don't get down to that area a lot so I had never been there before. Boy, was that a mistake! I can't believe that I hadn't gone to this place earlier. The food is amazing, and the atmosphere is rustic with a touch of hipster class. They also sell raw meat in the form of brats, burgers, ground meat, and bacon. They had me at the jerky and sauerkraut but the picture of the cat playing a banjo is what really stole my heart. They also started brewing beer recently. I think I'm in love.