This is one of the biggest times of the year for the homestead. This is when we put up most of our meat for the year to use in meals later on. Meat is one of the most expensive items on your shopping list and the price isn't going down...probably ever!
So when given the opportunity to harvest free meat on the homestead, we jump (literally) at the chance to stock our shelves. You see, for our off grid homestead, we can raw pack pressure can this meat and just keep the canned meat until we need it. We eat this venison meat all throughout the year. We just pull off a can of the meat from the shelves and use it in chilli, or tacos, or casseroles and lots of other dishes that Jaimie prepares.
Here is our video on raw pack canning. We haven't moved this video to Vimeo yet.
So far, this season, we haven't seen a whole lot of activity on our deer cam. The rut is starting and the deer are still full of acorns and persimmons so we haven't seen a lot of activity at our feeder as of yet. The crows and squirrels are very appreciative of the corn we have put out.
Here is a nice doe that came to visit after the sun went down. Say Cheese!
Here is another picture of the same doe. I haven't seen any bucks caught on camera yet.
Mostly all I'm seeing on my camera photos are squirrels. I don't eat tree rats so this doesn't interest me in the least.
Oh and we see a lot of these eating corn on my camera. Crows. At least the corn isn't going to waste but its not who I had intended it for.
Just so you know, I'm not at all a trophy hunter looking for the big bucks. I'm only concerned about providing meat for the pantry. Any deer will do as long as it appears to be healthy.
I will keep you updated over the next two weeks of hunting season on what we harvest and the process we go through on processing our own meat. When you think about all the meat we put up, its a big money saver!
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