Come along as Matt and I clean summer garden beds out, save seeds for next year, and discuss the deer damage that’s happened to our fall garden. In all the years we’ve made a garden here in the mountains of Appalachia this is the first time deer have eaten our plants.
Here is the deer video I mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfrvcACZGpo&t=21s
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26 Comments
Well put Matt! "NUFF" said! You two seem to understand what living off the land is all about! Love your channel.
Can’t tell you how much I enjoy listening to you and Matt talking about your obvious love for Appalachia and your home,you both seem so relaxed and unstressed,god bless you both,and keep these wonderful peaceful films coming.
Looks like the deer are video watchers too! They know where to go for the good stuff now!
You should do a video on Matt's recipe for deer roast.
10:33 In Texas, deer-hunting season is anxiously-awaited. Everything becomes deer in the kitchen. Even the tamales are made of deer. And people LOVE it!
Totally agree with Matt. Raised in the country, live in the city. Deer are as plentiful as cows in Ohio and are showing up in Urban areas and city backyards. It’s a shame there are more killed on the roads and highways here than for the dinner table.
We love deer meat.
Shepard's Pie is really good with deer meat; I set it up in a 13-by-9-inch glass pan. 2 pounds of ground deer meat, then I add a can of regular Campbell's cream of celery to the meat mixture, pat it down in the buttered pan, cook up the mixed vegetables on low with just a little butter, salt, and pepper, and top it with mashed potatoes baked for a while covered, then covered with a topping of shredded cheddar jack cheese. The celery soup really puts it over the top and helps hold the meat together.
One of my favorite ways to do the tenderloin is to roast it with butter wrapped tight in tin foil, then bring it out to rest for about 10 minutes, then roll it in butter, brown sugar, and crushed pecans, then put it back in the oven for about 5 minutes. I like to serve it with a mash of sweet potatoes and baked apples.
Fried deer meat is always a favorite. I like to fry up a mess of deer meat cubes with a green bean casserole and cornbread stuffing and fried green tomatoes when we're at our hunting camp or with corn on the cob, homemade french fries and fried green tomatoes when we go tent camping. Fried green tomatoes for some reason is real good with fried deer meat.
I've got a tool that attaches to my mixer where I can make deer meat sausage and there's nothing like home-made deer meat sausage.
I'm sure sorry they got into y'alls vegetable garden.
Thank you so much for all of your content, I truly enjoy all of the videos you have a beautiful family. Mrs Pressley My 28-year-old son enjoys listening to your storytime and all of the content from you and your family also; he said, "No wonder you enjoy listening to her; she has such a soothing voice." Thank you. Renee'
I am a meat hunter through and through. Matt and I are on the same page, that's for sure. Matt needs to share more soap box talk.
We have deer hunting here in Hawaii and I've tried it. It's not something I'd choose to eat. It didn't taste good at all. I'm thinking now that probably it was the way it was prepared.
That's a good point, less hunters= more deer. My dad still goes at 73 years old. A bear walked up to him while he was crossbow hunting lol. Both are ok. Have a blessed week, Ms Tipper.😊🌻🍂
Justin, my son put a 4pointer on the ground in 5 minutes of where I told him to sit down. Then step daddy got a6 pointer . So now I’m loaded up on my stock , Justin cubed everything except blackstrap. I’m still surprised you are still on the popsicles. My sons taught them selves how to hunt as me being the only woman raising sons. The Bible says he chose 7 clean animals and 2 of the unclean. Yes we were Hunter gatherers after the flood and there is an atonement for shed blood my sons had a hard time and they respect and praise the father for each kill. Soon people will be killing to eat. It’s been a blessing watching people. I’ll give you my story about Muenster cheese in the future.
My mama, when she was living in upstate NY, had problems with deer coming up & eating the flowers, especially the buds. Now she’s moved to a CCRC & it’s rabbits lol
When we lived in Texas, my Dad and brother deer hunted. They loved it. I posted a photo of my Dad on my Facebook page today with his hunting gear. My brother was about 9 when he shot his first deer. What Matt says about the need to thin out the deer for deer health is exactly what my Dad always said too. We don’t live in an area to hunt now, but we have deer in the woods out back. I put out corn for the squirrels, raccoon, and deer and also salt licks. I’ve seen about 8 deer during the past year. We don’t plant around the house either, but my daughter has no deer so the garden is at her house! 😃👍🏻
Deer are part of the fabric of our existence around here. They feast on my chestnuts and are now eating the persimmons. I consider them meat on the hoof and tolerate some of their predations. We all feed each other.
The deer also hit the smell of eggs, garlic, dried blood and soaps and cloves and mint. That's what I've been told anyway and putting the hair out. 👍😊
Love your channel,but I really loved this video, I’m a hunter myself and I agree with Matt . Humans have been hunting for thousands of years, i love being in the woods, and enjoy to eat the game that i shoot.
People are quick to judge hunters that get their own meat but they don’t have any qualms about going to the store and paying for some not so healthy meat.
I would Love to eat y'all's Eggs, y'all feed them as good as y'all eat!!! I bet they are Great!!!
Oh I remember you saying in an earlier video that u had never had a deer problem an where u live looks about like where I live n they absolutely destroyed our garden this yr. We had to put up barbed wire fence and put our dog in the garden and that kept them out the rest of the year but the damage was already done. I hope u don’t have the trouble that we had this year in ur spring garden. Much love to you guys from eastern KY.
I had deer meat once. It was really good. My aunt soaked it in several buttermilk baths till the buttermilk was no longer pink. Was just as good as a filet mignon.
No different than eating squirrel stew!
Sorry your cabbage got eat. Matt's right. We killed off all the natural predictors that keep the deer herds healthy. So we need to fill that need and fed our families. We have a group here that will clean and process deer meat for the needy if you wish to donate your deer.
I totally agree with Matt he is spot on about the deer. As a farmer Im always too busy with harvest and fall tillage to hunt, but I always get venison from guys who do hunt my land. When your making a living off your crops its really aggravating with heavy deer damage along the edges of fields, they also will go after round bales that I have for cows, and Ive lost a few vehicles to hitting them.
Looks like the new place for the deer stand is inside the bedroom window!
Enjoyed hearing Matt. Hess got what we call country common sense and old school behaviors that are sorely missing these days. We quail hunted with German short hair pointers dogs back in the 60s and 70s here in the Piedmont of North Carolina. I can remember begging Dad to let me play hokey from school and go hunting with him and his buddies…he didn't let me. The quail have disappeared in this area, it started around the early 80s. It's been over 30 years since I have heard a Bob White in the evenings. Quail used to be everywhere, big covies, we always brought home a mess of birds. There waere no deer in this area when I was growing up and no deer hunters. Deer have now taken over the area and I saw my first one in the area back in the summer of 1991,
The "old" ways are disappearing, be it hunting, gardening, canning, spinning, weaving, etc.. People need to know how to be self reliant.