SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21st, 2025

Lower Valley, Kalispell MT

1:30pm-6:30pm

Educational Demonstration – Beginner Friendly

Reconnect with the old ways

Step into a space where traditional skills are honored and animal harvest is approached with care, respect, and intention. In this live, outdoor demonstration, you’ll learn how to ethically dispatch, skin, gut, and break down an Icelandic sheep from start to finish.

Whether you’re preparing for hunting season, curious about whole-animal processing, or seeking a deeper relationship with your food, this class will guide you through every step — blending ancient self-sufficiency practices with modern technique. We approach the harvest as both a skill and a sacred act, honoring the life taken and the nourishment given.

What You’ll Learn

• Ethical harvesting and humane dispatch methods

• How to skin, gut, and break down a whole sheep

• Tool tips and safe handling practices

• Step-by-step guidance with time for Q&A

Why Take This Class

• Build confidence in traditional skills

• Connect to your food in a meaningful way

• Witness the entire process from start to finish

• Prepare yourself for future hunting or homesteading

• Meet an uncomfortable edge and build resilience if animal harvesting is uncomfortable for you
  
• Spend time connecting with like-minded community and reclaiming your village.

Important Details

• Format: Educational demonstration (no hands-on processing)

• Ages: 18+, 16+ allowed with parental consent and signature on waiver UPON ARRIVAL.

• Setting: Outdoors — dress for the weather

• Meat: No take-home meat from this class, but an optional opportunity to taste it 
  

• Refunds: Tickets are non-refundable once purchased. If you have any emergent issues, feel free to contact us. In extreme circumstances, we may issue your ticket value to a future workshop on a case-by-case basis. Tickets can be transferred to any party for any reason once purchased, so long as the purchaser forwards all relevant information along and the participating ticket holder signs required liability waiver. 

After the Workshop

You’re invited to join us for a FREE optional community meal featuring home-cooked organic, locally sourced food — including sheep meat like you just learned to process. We'll break bread, have a fire, connect, and tell stories like humans used to do. If you have an instrument and would like to play it during this time, please bring it! 

PLEASE NOTE that this meal:

• Is not prepared in a commercial kitchen

• Is not part of the ticket price

• Is not inspected by any regulatory body

It’s simply humans gathering in trust, connection, and gratitude.

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Details:

• Ages 18+

• Outdoors, rain or shine so please dress accordingly

• Sellable tickets limited to 16 people.
  
  

• Safety gear optional and self-provided (gloves, eyewear, apron, etc.)

• Every participant will receive more information via email after tickets have been purchased and will be required to sign a release of liability waiver in order to attend.

NOTE: you will receive an email with the address upon order completion. A few days prior to the workshop, you'll receive all the details. :-)