From Birth to Butchering With Lulu Redder

From Birth to Butchering With Lulu Redder

From FarmHouse by Lancaster Farming

February 5, 2026 · 25 min · Episode 78

About this episode

Lulu Redder discusses her journey in sustainable farming and butchery at Feral Woman Farm.

This week on the FarmHouse, a podcast by Lancaster Farming, we spoke with Lulu Redder, the owner of Feral Woman Farm in North Bend, Washington. Feral Woman Farm is a pastured pig and chicken operation located within a historic farm park. The land is publicly owned and offers trails and play areas as well as a farmstead. This means the farm gets plenty of visitors, offering Redder an opportunity to interact with and educate the public on agriculture. "We get to work in this space which has a lot of history and a lot of public interaction, so it was kind of the perfect place for us to do a community-based farming operation, which I love," said Redder. Redder takes pride in the closed production loop she's created on the farm. It's important to her that all aspects of her animals' lives are managed on the property, from birth to slaughter. To keep everything on-site, she trained as a butcher and now processes her livestock on the farm. She also offers community butchery classes to those interested in following in her footsteps. "I did a lot of exploration and learning about butchery because I felt that I came to a point in my farming career where I was like, if I am going to raise…

People in this episode

Host: Lancaster Farming

Guest: Lulu Redder

Topics covered

  • agriculture
  • butchery
  • community farming
  • women in farming
  • sustainable practices

Keywords

  • butchery
  • sustainable farming
  • community education
  • pastured pigs
  • chickens

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Feral Woman Farm

Places: North Bend, Washington, historic farm park

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