Disclaimer ... if you are squeamish about hunting, please move on to the next post!
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| Feeding the home deer. They are free to roam but come every evening for their grain. There is no shooting within a kilometre of the whares |
We sometimes talk about how much we enjoy harvesting our own food. Sometimes these opportunities present in the form of picking mushrooms (which we enjoy around the world), picking wild plants like NZ spinach, fishing (another activity which we enjoy worldwide) or hunting wild game. We are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to indulge this passion in New Zealand. As animal lovers, we still believe it is kinder and more environmentally sustainable to hunt our own food that purchase meat from the supermarket. That doesn't mean we enjoy the killing process and we both feel a little sad at the moment of our 'success', but celebrate the fact that our food was living it's best life to this point.
Having a week to spare before our next housesit, and being in the vacinity of our favourite native block, we headed into Maungataniwha to do some pest control for Pete. It was tough going with the rabbit and hare hunting as the weather really didn't play ball but we still managed to reduce the population and harvest the meat of approx 30 bunnies and 13 hares.
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| The huntmobile aka Polarus |
We also had a pig jump out on the road in front of us and James was quick enough to get it
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| Nose to tail harvesting |
This fella came across our path too .......
We were also lucky to come across a deer on the same road very early one morning.
And it was back to Whakatane with a chilly bin of meat and fish!
In the freezer we now had: Tuna, Albacore, Kingfish, Kahawai, Venison, Wild Pork, Goat, Turkey, Pheasant, Rabbit & Hare
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