Liz Riffle
Regenerative Farming & Agriculture Specialist
Education
- Masters, Nursing Education, Excelsior University
- Part of the US Navy Nurse Corps Commission at Northwestern University
Professional Achievements
- Riffle Farms was the first commercial bison operation in the state of West Virginia
- Started The Honest Carnivore - A WV Meat Collective, the first farm business in West Virginia to field harvest animals for state certified commercial sale
- Has appeared on multiple podcasts
Certifications & Organizations
- Board member of the National Bison Association since 2022
- Savory Accredited Professional–Liz teaches Holistic Management across the country
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Co-authored Articles (11)
How to
Make Prosciutto
The pig is an animal which has brought people a wide variety of meats. Prosciutto is Italian ham, that has been cured and dried. When you learn how to make prosciutto, you'll discover you have been missing out on an easy...
How to
Cure Meat
Curing is an age-old process of preserving meat for later use. With just a few ingredients — salt, nitrites, and time — the meat transforms: from water-packed and pliable to dry and stiff. Over time, the flavor devel...
How to
Make Tocino
Tocino is a breakfast dish that is popular in the Philippines. It is made of pork fat, typically coming from the pig's shoulder, rear, or loin. To make tocino, all you have to do is cure it in a mixture of delicious spic...
How to
Make Beef Jerky
Beef jerky is a delicious snack made by drying lean, flavorful meat. You can use all sorts of meat for your jerky, including flank steak, sirloin, or filet mignon. To flavor your meat, add seasoning and marinade. To dry ...
How to
Get the Gamey Taste Out of Meat
Eating game meat like venison, bison, duck, or rabbit is a great way to become healthier and more self-sufficient in your meat routine. But the gamey flavor associated with it can be off-putting. Whether you hunt your ow...
How to
Cure Bacon
Curing bacon yourself might seem like a lot of labor when you can just go to the supermarket and pick up a package that is ready to cook as is. However, curing the meat yourself allows you to omit sodium nitrites if desi...
400+ Cute, Cool, & Unique Name Ideas for Cows & Bulls
Choose the perfect name for your cow with this guide If you’ve recently gotten a new cow, you’re probably wondering what to name it. Luckily, there are all kinds of cute names for cows, no matter the type, color, or ...
How to
Make Homemade Bacon
Bacon is a cured pork product made from pork belly. The curing process requires a large quantity of salt, usually mixed with other ingredients to help infuse flavor. After curing the pork belly, people usually smoke baco...
How to
Raise Cattle
There is more than one way to raise cattle, that's something that everyone, beginner and veteran cattlemen alike can agree with. How cattle are raised depends not just on the individual raising them, but the breed, class...
How to
Build a Livestock Fence
Livestock fencing is dependent on the type of livestock you intend to keep inside the fence. There are many types of fence that will control livestock.This article provides a simple brief overview of typical livestock fe...
How to
Cut, Bale, and Store Hay
Dry hay harvest and baling is an important part of life for ranchers and farmers who have foraging herbivorous animals, like sheep, cattle and horses. A good hay crop is defined by weather, field conditions and plant res...
