Meat, the Neighbors

You grow your own tomatoes, harvest your own herbs, and cultivate a few fruit trees (or you wish you did). Why then would you buy meat from a butcher?

More and more people are taking the locavore approach to getting their own meat, including hunting local deer for venison. Though it may seem extreme to some folks, hunting and dressing your own deer, boar, turkey or other game has been a way of life for, oh, thousands of years. And you can’t get much more free-range than a wild animal.

Where I live (in the country north of New York City), the air these days is filled with the sound of deer rifles. The animals are pests, wiping out forests and gardens alike, so taking out Bambi’s mom seems like green living at its finest. In fact, I feel a bit foolish for serving a store-bought turkey this Thursday, since my backyard is home to a family of turkeys.

Here’s wishing you and your family a happy, healthy and local Thanksgiving.