In this episode, Brandon chats with sheep homesteaders Rachel & Kyle Hester about Romanian placinta cake, how the Hesters got into raw milk for health, sheep breeds for milking, how to start milking a meat sheep, what a milking session looks like, drinking the delicious milk, and making sheep cheeses.
Timestamps/Topics for Episode 110:
0:00 Intro
3:13 Romanian placinta cake
5:49 How the Hesters got into homesteading with sheep
13:39 Milking meat sheep breeds during lockdown
16:50 Brandon asked about how to start milking his meat sheep
28:12 Herd culture and family groups
34:21 What a milking session looks like
38:00 Teat placement and selecting for good milkers
44:27 Sitting behind the sheep when milking
47:19 Milking just once a day & milk as the main product for a while
53:58 Making sheep cheese
59:46 Experimental cheese making
Links for Episode 110:
- Whoopsy Daisy Farm https://www.whoopsydaisyfarm.com/
- The Guide to Homestead Dairy Sheep by Rachel Hester https://sawdustpublishing.com/product/the-guide-to-homestead-dairy-sheep/?v=0b3b97fa6688
- Placinta cake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C4%83cint%C4%83
- Weston A Price Foundation - https://www.westonaprice.org
- Joel Salatin https://polyfacefarms.com/
- Babraham Institute https://www.babraham.ac.uk/
- David Asher https://www.milklab.ca/
- Natural Sheep Care by Pat Coleby https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1302660.Natural_Sheep_Care
- Much Ado About Mutton by Bob Kennard https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21814351-much-ado-about-mutton
- The Nordic Cookbook by Magnus Nilsson https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25208269-the-nordic-cookbook
- The Eco Flock: Small-Scale Shepherding for Uncertain Times by N S Rose <
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