We don’t trust processors, none of them exhibit the care of the meat that the wife and I do. We keep the backstraps, tenderloins, and shanks. Will save 4-5 packages of chunks for stew or chili. The rest is ground up with either 15% pork or beef fat and packaged in 1 pound tubes.
This year might make a 25 pound batch of summer sausage.


My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost.