If you love eating fresh venison like we do, we have articles to walk you through the entire process, from proper field dressing, to butchering your deer, followed by some excellent venison recipes to help you get the most out of your harvest.
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Warm Up After the Hunt With Slow Cooker Venison Chili
Nov 27, 2023Elizabeth Kligge
Venison meals are a crucial part of our Field to Fork program. For the adults participating and learning to hunt for the first time, acquiring their own food is a key motivation, so we share…
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Hot Honey Butter Venison Roast is a Fall Classic
Nov 14, 2023Karli Gill
I like my venison roasts to be full-flavored and to give me a robust feeling of crisp air and fall weather. This recipe is just that. This slightly sweet and spicy twist on a familiar…
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Spring Tonic Salad With Deer Heart and Morels
Apr 7, 2021Bruce and Elaine Ingram
According to Southern Appalachian folklore, blood “falls” in the winter and “rises” in the summer. Come spring, in order to force one’s blood to start percolating again, a spring tonic was necessary. I’m not sure…
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10 Essential Tools for Home Deer Processing
Jun 10, 2020Lindsay Thomas Jr.
Long ago, I made the decision to process my venison for the freezer at home, in my own relatively small kitchen. My basic tools and procedures have remained simple because they work and because I…
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Hunt & Gather: Clean Out the Freezer Stew
Apr 29, 2020Bruce and Elaine Ingram
The other day, I took a tour through our freezer and discovered a quartered gray squirrel from February, turkey wing meat from the fall of 2018 (yikes), and just two packages of roasts among our…
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Hunt & Gather: Venison Burger with Wild Watercress Potatoes and Dandelion Salad
Mar 4, 2020Bruce and Elaine Ingram
In mid-to-late winter and early spring on the 38 acres Elaine and I live on, I perform many of the typical tasks NDA members do: look for sheds of the never-seen buck that made all…
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5 Venison Recipes From NDA’s Field to Fork Events
Feb 12, 2020Hank Forester
When Charles Evans and I created the pilot project in 2016 that would become NDA’s Field to Fork program, we tried a novel approach for reaching non-hunting adults who might be interested in learning to…
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Hunt & Gather: Apple Venison Roast
Dec 11, 2019Bruce and Elaine Ingram
My wife Elaine and I enjoy venison year-round, and we also enjoy gathering and eating fruits and other foods that result from habitat improvements on our land. We’ve planted apple trees for deer nutrition, but…
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Do-It-Yourself Deer Processing
Nov 14, 2018Mark Turner
Moving to Auburn, Alabama to begin graduate school last fall brought about quite a few changes in the way I hunt. It was the first year I was away from my family’s farm in North…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Pasties and Persimmon Nut Cookies
Oct 25, 2018Bruce and Elaine Ingram
The deer should have been coming within range of my bow, and the fact that they were not was making me become more and more frustrated and perplexed. I had found a classic food within…
