Dan's deer huntin'

Another good news story in a sometimes depressing food universe. 

This is Dan. In the last year he hunted and dressed five deer and got a butcher to process them into many varieties of venison meat products - which have been feeding him, his parents and his friends for a while now.


Now not everyone has the resources to harvest a deer overpopulation in Pennsylvania, but Dan does and he did. He is getting closer to his meat than most of us will ever get and is learning a lot in the process.


Taking responsibility for his meat is not something Dan learned from generations of hunters in his family - rather he was inspired when a friend took him hunting on the West Coast. Awesome. Humans are incredibly adaptable creatures - we can learn new skills and ways of living if we have the will and the way.


There is a lot of wisdom out there and speaking with Dan just adds to my appreciation of and aspiration to become a generalist - to know something about a lot of things, especially those things that pertain to my sustenance and everyday existence.

In this vein check this out for a really excellent introduction on how to kill and prepare a whole pig.