Revisit: 'What About the Hide?' with Charlotte Sykes

This week... hide tanning! Charlotte Sykes is a hunter from England who started keeping all her game hides the same year her husband decided he'd eat only game meat. Charlotte's journey has fledged into a business, Buckskyn, where she sells goods made from the hides she tans herself. Join us this week for a chat on how to get into hide tanning, an overview of the at-home process - plus springer spaniels, salt-marsh lamb, and more. 3:00 "Salt-marsh bred lamb"... the most delicious? 5:00 Kale, cabbages & brassicas all winter long 8:00 English springer spaniels on either side of the Atlantic 11:00 The year we only ate game 14:00 Learning curve of tanning hides 17:00 The play-by-play of hide tanning, starting with post-harvest 19:00 "You've got to be quite happy to put a bit of grunt behind it." 22:00 Meat prep room in your next house, anyone? 24:00 Can you sub anything for the tedious task of working a hide over a fleshing beam? Enter... YOUTUBE. (Spoiler: It's a pressure washer.) 27:00 Pickling stage 30:00 A non-traditional use for a sander! 31:00 One hide = three weeks start to finish 33:00 Traditional tanning vs commercial tanning products 35:00 Buckskyn - Charlotte's deerskin/hide accessory business, where each product comes with a hunting/harvest story 37:00 The ABCs of sewing with hides 40:00 Fleshing rabbits 44:00 Navigating the bullet hole 50:00 First trout! 52:00 Find Buckskyn on Insta; or online at Buckskyn.com 53:00 Artemis blog post, "What About the Hide?" 54:00 Matt Richards book on hide tanning: The Ultimate Guide to Skinning and Tanning 58:00 Artemis 'Go Confident' as an Advocate -- another program off the ground, which is off to a hot start 1:00:00 Past life: living in an Airstream by the river Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices