Workshops & Speaking
Online Workshops
Meredith has a full suite of online meat curing courses, offering pre-recorded, learn-at-your-own pace meat curing and fermentation from wherever you are, with lifetime access.
Inquiries:
Communities or individuals wishing to inquire about in-person workshops, please contact Meredith directly to provide more details about your needs.
Upcoming Events:
Juneberry Jams: July 8th, 2023
Meredith will speak at a fireside chat on the resurgence of holistic farming and its impact on our food systems, and the opportunities for individuals and communities to respond or participate. The presentation will be followed by country music acts and outdoor fun, all in a beautiful outdoor setting in Norwood, NC.
John C. Campbell Folk School: Aug 13-18, 2023
Reinvent your relationship with meat. With the premise that animals are essential players in agricultural ecosystems and humans are the stewards, embark on a week of cookery and preservation that places us back in holistic relationship with the animals that we eat. Use the lenses of tradition, art, economics, environmental stewardship, and deliciousness to approach a culinary experience that will educate, challenge, and inspire. Students should be prepared to participate in butchering a hog. MORE INFO
Rare Bird Farm: Sept. 9, 2023
Learn to butcher a hog with Meredith Leigh, author of The Ethical Meat Handbook. As we go, you will learn how people from around the world approach animal farming, slaughter, butchery, and meat preservation, not only to enrich practical cooking and eating but also as a way of reconnecting you with ancestral skills and ways of knowing. We will not only learn the cuts of meat and how to deliciously use the entire animal, but we will also explore the amazing synergies of earth, food, sun, soil, water, breed, movement, and human interaction with animals and how they affect the quality of our relationship with nature as well as the vitality of the food we eat. Meredith is a former farmer, current homesteader, writer, butcher, activist, and mother who is inspired by the power of embodied re-skilling as a ritual invitation toward healing. Participants will not leave hungry nor empty handed. MORE INFO
Ferment Oaxaca : October 6-9, 2023
The annual gathering of fermentation experts and enthusiasts in Oaxaca City, Mexico will include presentations from Meredith on butchery and meat fermentation.
