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Subject: Re: what's a food pantry?

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krz

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Date Posted: 11/26/04 11:12:47am
In reply to: pa 's message, "what's a food pantry?" on 11/25/04 7:49:04am

>sounds like a nice trip. tz has been explaining this
>ritual a little to me (with the details of farmers
>land, hunting groups etc.) in relation to the hunter
>murders in WI. sounds like a very pleasnat
>outing/backpacking?camp out.
>pa

My father has owned some land with a couple other guys (40 acres)near a town called Iola (Waupaca county - town of a couple thousand people) since I can remember. His father owned the adjoining 40. When I was young dad and the co-owners put up a small cabin and aptly named it the 'Woodtick Inn'. The cabin is about 20 yards off the road, with vehicle access to the cabin. A small creek (with trout in summer) runs across the front. No indoor running water, no indoor plumbing (an outhouse). Since then, there's now a covered porch.

It's roughing it, but in a comfortable manner - the place is warm, dry and the woods are beautiful.

A nice set of trails running through the woods - which were marked by color when we were little so the kids could go on walks and not get too lost. I remember one of the trails took you to grandpa's cabin from the Woodtick and thinking I was such a big kid when I could get there by myself.

Typically geo and the other hunters at the Woodtick hunt by placing themselves in stands around the land and then waiting. Other strategies involve one group of hunters at one end of the land, and another group of hunters driving the deer through the woods -- I don't think geo and crew drives much, but I could be wrong. Waiting in the deer stand is where Geo was witness to the other animals.

Food pantrys provide a low cost to free opportunity to purchase food and are typically managed by the community (vs the state). The Hunger Task Force in Milwaukee operates the biggest one here, and I think to shop there you need to also volunteer time to the Task Force. Often the pantry is stocked with food drives and like geo said donated venison from hunters. The deer herd is really large in WI, and the state would like to see it reduced - asking hunters to kill more than they could use and having venison processed for food pantrys is one way the state has tried to reduce the herd.

Many people don't like venison, so not sure how well that process goes over. I personally really like it - but prefer the stuff from my dad's land which is usually fed by farmer corn (not that the farmers are too happy about that). Deer from the real north of the state are mostly feeding on underbrush, pine cones, berries and the like. They can be a little more 'gamey' tasing.

Pan seared venison steak with a red wine/dried sour cherry reduction --- add to that some garlic mashed potatoes and sautee of wild mushroom. Northwoods heaven.

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Subject	Author	Date
deer hunting in wisconsin	tjm	12/ 1/04 1:10:48pm
Re: deer hunting in wisconsin -- pjk, 12/ 1/04 4:00:18pm Re: deer hunting in wisconsin -- krz, 12/ 1/04 6:48:59pm Re: deer hunting in wisconsin -- geo, 12/ 2/04 7:30:49am