Brandon Sheard

Brandon Sheard came into traditional livestock harvesting after studying Shakespeare in graduate school.  With no experience in butchery or agriculture, he quit his job at Whole Foods Market, and started work on a small, multi-species and pasture-based farm in the Pacific Northwest.  After two years of working on the farm and managing the butcher shop, Brandon left and started Farmstead Meatsmith with his wife Lauren who had journeyed with him from academia to agriculture.  Today they live in northeastern Oklahoma with their nine children, teaching the art of animal harvesting and provisioning on the domestic scale.  You can learn the craft of artful slaughter at farmsteadmeatsmith.com where they host the Meatsmith Membership and post a full calendar of undiluted hands-on classes in animal harvesting according to the traditions of the peasant home.