Sourland Journal – Spring 2016

Sourland Journal
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Sourlands
Protecting New Jersey’s Sourland Mountain Since 1986
www.sourland.org
Newsletter of the Sourland Conservancy
Spring 2016
The Sourland Stewards Project Grows and Spreads!
istration and prepayment are required. Visit
http://sourland.org/stewards-events/ to register
By Laurie Cleveland
Now in its second year, the innovative Sourland
Stewards program has taken root and is thriving.
Our Facebook group has 130 very engaged
members who share tips and successes, ask questions, and learn
from their Sourland neighbors and local naturalists. Join us!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sourlandstewards/
Stewardshops involve participants in stewardship and ecological
restoration at a practical level. Participants work collaboratively
to solve a real-life ecological challenge, guided by an experienced
practitioner.
To date, we’ve enjoyed two Forest Restoration Stewardshops
hosted by Caroline Katmann and led by Jared Rosenbaum, Sourland Steward Naturalist Advisor. Participants toured the Katmann
property, learned to identify invasive and native species, and discussed options for removing the invasives and replacing existing
yard with native plantings to achieve the homeowners’ goals.
We are also looking forward to an upcoming Rain Garden Stewardshop led by Samantha Bernstein, Americorps New Jersey
Watershed Ambassador. Participants will learn how to reduce
stream pollution, beautify their property, and nurture nature in
their own backyards. Samantha will show them how to choose
and prepare a site, and how to design and plant a low-maintenance garden using native species to clean and reduce storm water
runoff.
Sourland Stewards hikes are very popular. These hikes focus
on best stewardship practices for residents of the Sourland Region. This year, we’ve scheduled six Sourland Steward hikes.
See our March 16th eNewsletter for
registration information.
At the Rain Barrel Workshop on
Saturday, April 16th, Samantha
Bernstein will teach participants how
to capture and reuse rainwater in their
home garden with a rain barrel. Each
participant will then build their own
rain barrel to take home and begin the
water savings immediately! Adults
and families are invited to attend. The
$50 fee includes ALL materials
needed to build one rain barrel. Reg-
Our Woodcock Habitat Restoration Project is
underway! We’ve teamed up with FoHVOS and
the Mercer County Park Commission to remove
invasive species and restore the young forest and
shrubland habitat at Hopewell Borough Park. Over 35 bird
species, including our beloved American woodcock rely on this
ever-rare habitat. With the help of individual volunteers, groups,
troops and organizations, Sourland Stewards will remove the unwanted, invasive plants that infest the park. We have scheduled
several dates this summer and will be adding more. If you or
your group would like more information or would like to join us,
please contact [email protected]. All ages welcome. No
experience is required.
This restoration project will take place in phases spread out over
a few years. In several growing seasons, the park should host
some of the eastern seaboard’s more rare breeding birds – we’ve
got our eyes set on hosting breeding American woodcock but also
blue-winged warbler, brown thrasher, chestnut-sided warbler and
indigo bunting. In total, conservationists have identified 65 mammals, birds and reptiles as Species of Greatest Conservation Need
that rely on shrubland and young forest for their survival. By creating and stewarding shrubland and young forest at Hopewell
Borough Park, we can do our part to conserve this special community of wildlife.
The Sourlands – A Guide for Responsible Stewardship (available at this link: http://sourland.org/stewardship/) A second edition of our popular and award-winning stewardship guide for
residents will be printed soon! The second edition will feature revised chapters related to the core topics of the Sourland Stewards
program and a greatly enhanced list
of resources, including partner organizations, businesses, print and web
publications.
Sourland Stewards is partially funded
with generous support from a 2014
Watershed Institute Grant, a 2015
New Jersey Conservation Foundation Franklin Parker Conservation
Excellence Grant, a 2016 BristolMyers Squibb grant and a 2015 Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New
Jersey Matching Grant.
Hiking the Sourlands
The Sourland Conservancy is a non-profit organization working to protect the ecological
integrity, historic resources, and special character of the Sourland Mountain region.
Sourland Conservancy
Sourland Conservancy
Meeting information
Sourland Conservancy’s Board of
Trustee meetings are held on the first
Monday of even-numbered months at
the train station in Hopewell Borough,
at 7:00 pm. You are warmly invited.
Staff
Executive Director: Caroline Katmann
[email protected]
609-309-5155
Director of Communications &
Development: Laurie Cleveland
[email protected]
609-309-5155
Officers
President: Joanna Fiori,
Montgomery Twp.
Vice President: Marylou Ferrara,
Pennington
Treasurer: Veronique Oomen
Princeton
Secretary: Andrea Bonette,
East Amell Twp.
Trustees
Jim Amon, Lambertville
Jim Andrews, Hopewell
Kevin Burkman, Montgomery
Jennifer Bryson, Hillsborough
Tracy Carluccio, East Amwell
Bob Cibulskis, Hillsborough
Marian Fenwick, Hillsborough
Marylou Ferrara, Pennington
Jared Flesher, East Amwell
Gary Johnston, West Windsor
Gery Juleff, Hopewell Borough
Marcia Maguire, Hopewell Borough
Sandy Simpson, Hillsborough
Roger Thorpe, Hopewell Borough
Honorary Trustees
Ray Brown
Robert and Stephanie Harris
John McGahren
Scott and Hella McVay
Chris Sturm
Emeritus Trustees:
Ken Bogen
Andrea Bonette
Charlie Clark
Steve Davison
Deb Fabricatore
Jerry Haimowitz
Judy Jengo
Tom Kilbourne
Cathy Urbanski
Peg Van Patton
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Message from the President
By Joanna Flori
With spring approaching
earlier this year and with
our 30th anniversary year
upon us, we are energized
to celebrate our 30 years
with a number of exciting
events and are challenged to meet the demands
ahead of us.
The highlights so far have included the Sweet
Sourland Farm tour with Charlize Katzenbach
sharing her family’s maple syrup operation;our
“Beer, Bluegrass and Bootleggers” event at Hillbilly Hall with Jim Davidson and Truman
Goines; the Gospel Brunch with the Stoutsburg
Cemetery Association to raise money for the
Sourland Mountain African American Museum
in the AME church on Hollow Road; and several
volunteer workdays and hikes. We are trying to
accommodate overflow crowds at many of these
gatherings by scheduling repeat performances.
process has generated enthusiasm and lively discussion among us. The Strategic Plan focuses
on our organization. How are we structured?
How do we focus and prioritize? And, how do
we assess the results? The goals are to govern
ourselves effectively, to achieve meaningful regional impact, to realize financial stability and
to understand the relevance of our work. The
committees that work diligently to support a sustainable business model and good governance
practices are the Executive Committee, Governance Committee and Finance Committee.
Our program plan lays out what we actually do
in a twelve-month period. We have three committees made up of Trustees and volunteers that
are immersed in promoting and protecting the
Sourland region.They are:
In partnership with like-minded organizations,
we are continuing to monitor the PennEast and
Transco pipelines’ actions and Gibraltar Quarry
developments. We mobilize citizen activists and
communicate updates and Action Alerts.
• Education and Heritage – includes our
collaboration with the Stoutsburg Cemetery
Association, as well as hikes, bus tours,
signage, photo essays and trail maps.
• Advocacy and Citizen Action – includes
vigilance and response to threats to the
region, which spans three counties and is
located in parts of seven municipalities.
• Stewardship – engages residents in protecting
the Sourlands by sharing best practices and
projects, and developing a Sourland Steward
accreditation process.
We are developing a three-year Strategic Plan to
be followed by our one-year Program Plan. This
We welcome your feedback, participation and
support.
To come are the Music Fest, the Sourland Spectacular, the Camp Meeting and a number of hikes
and presentations.
New Trustees in 2016!
The Sourland Conservancy enthusiastically welcomes our new trustees. We are privileged to have
them on our board.
Jim Andrews lives in Hopewell and is an electrical engineer at SRI International. He designs
imagers for satellites, telescopes and scientific instruments. Some of these imagers are in satellites
observing the sun, others look down at the earth able to make clear pictures of weather phenomena
both during the day and at night. Other imagers are in telescopes keeping track of orbiting space
debris.
Kevin Burkman, a Montgomery resident, holds a B.S. degree in environmental planning, and a
M.S. degree in urban/regional planning, both from Rutgers University. Kevin has utilized his GIS
expertise to create the Sourland Conservancy’s open space maps and trail maps.
Marylou Millard Ferrara is a former Mayor of Hopewell Township and the current vice president for the Sourland Conservancy. During her tenure as Mayor, the Township adopted a new
Master Plan. As Mayor, she partnered with the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association
and directed municipal staff to participate in the Watershed’s first municipal assessment.
Veronique Oomen lives in Princeton and comes to the Conservancy with strong financial management skills and over ten years of project management experience. Veronique now serves as
treasurer for the Sourland Conservancy.
Roger Thorpe of Hopewell Borough has degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics and, for 20 years, did contract research for NASA and DOD in the areas of rocketry and ceramic composite armor. Roger spent 15 years running a fluid dynamics computer modeling lab to assist in the design of air pollution control systems for power plants and oil refineries.
Roger is passionate about stewardship in the Sourlands.
Sourland Journal
In This Issue
E.D. Report: The Sourland Mountain African-American Museum
I have a decades-old button that
I wear every Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day. It shows a photo
of Dr. King and the words: We
still have a dream!
COMMENT
2 Message from the President
By Joanna Fiori, President/ “…we
are energized to celebrate our 30
years…”
This button comes to my mind
often these days as I work on our
dream of a Sourland Mountain
African-American
Museum
project.
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Executive Director’s Report
By Caroline Katmann, Executive
Director / “We still have a dream!”
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Photo Essay: Seeing the
Sourlands
By Jim Amon, Trustee / Murder of
Crows
The Sourland Conservancy, the
Stoutsburg Cemetery Association, and a growing number of
individuals and organizations
Future site of the Sourland Mountain
have a dream that the AfricanAfrican-American Museum
American heritage in the Sourlands and the Hopewell Valley will be acknowledged and celebrated as an important and
integral part of the history of the region.
REGULAR FEATURES
4 The Poet’s Corner
By Lois Marie Harrod / The Crow
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Sourland Cuisine
Submitted by Caroline Katmann /
Slow-Cooker Venison Sloppy Joes
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Oral History
By Andrea Bonette / Interview with
Jeannie Geremia
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Nature Corner
By Patricia Sziber / Eastern
Redbud
To this end, we are embarking on a challenging and exciting path to create the Sourland
Mountain African-American Museum in the historic Mt. Zion AME Church on Hollow
Road in Skillman.
Our dream is to house artifacts, documents, photographs, oral histories and more, depicting
African-American history and culture on the Mountain - to create an educational and cultural center in the heart of the Sourlands. A sculpture of an African-American family seated
in a pew at worship inside the church will pay homage to the importance of family and
faith to the ancestors of many of the African Americans living in the region today.
This endeavor involves many hours of research, writing, fundraising, planning, and gathering input from stakeholders in the community. Stakeholders include township officials,
neighbors, organizations, community groups, historic commissions, educators, and so on.
The first fundraiser for this project, a Gospel Brunch at the Hopewell Presbyterian Church
in March, was extremely well attended, raised over $4000 for the project and created lots
of buzz! We have been deeply moved by the number of people who have volunteered their
time and expertise.
NEWS
2 Welcome to Our New Trustees
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Sourland Stewards
By Laurie Cleveland/Sourland
Stewards Project Grows and
Spreads
Please join us as we move forward
with the planning stages of the project. We are looking for help with 7 Thank you to our Donors in 2015!
everything from tree removal services to help with grant research and writing. Individual donations are gratefully
accepted; donors will become “Friends of the Museum” with acknowledgments
to include listing on a plaque inside the museum.
The "Dream Team" - Bonita Grant (Hopewell Valley
Historical Society), Beverly Mills (Stoutsburg trustee) ,
Elaine Buck (Stoutsburg Trustee), Annebelle
Radcliffe-Trenner (Historic Building Architects, LLC),
Jack Keoppel (Hopewell Valley Historical Society),
Bruce Daniels (Grounds For Scultpture), Caroline
Katmann (Sourland Conservancy) and John Buck
(Stoutsburg president - not pictured).
In September we will sponsor a re-enactment of a Camp Meeting, as a fundraising event for the museum, and are looking for volunteers to coordinate that
event. Camp Meetings were all-day services and picnics which were widely
attended by both blacks and whites. “The meetings were held on the last two
Sundays of July and the first two of August in a grove and cow pasture owned
by Tom Brophy on the north Side of Camp Meeting Road next to Rock
Brook…Everyone wore his best clothes…the horses were painstakingly
groomed…the pulpit and organ, taken from the church were set up on a
wooden dais...the vegetables served at the dinner were largely the produce of
summer…desserts were hand-cranked ice cream and fresh pies…” (New Jersey’s Sourland Mountain by T.J. Luce) Sounds wonderful, doesn’t it?
Please help us preserve this lovely little church on the mountain and honor its
congregants of the past by creating an educational and cultural center for
Sourland residents, visitors, school children, and community groups.
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Sourland Conservancy
THE POET’S CORNER
Seeing the Sourlands: A Murder of Crows
by Lois Marie Harrod
I am intrigued by crows.
They are one of the smartest
animals; they are sociable and
have the endearing trait of
mating for life; they are quick
to help each other; they are
adaptable to every habitat in
America. But there is a darker
side to crows. They steal and
Murder of Crows photo by Jim Amon
eat chicks from other bird
nests—along with a diet that includes carrion and garbage; they
make a raucous noise instead of a pretty song; they congregate in
flocks up to the tens of thousands (mostly in places like Ohio and
Illinois) that cause severe damage to crop fields and create so
much concentrated waste that it can create health problems for
humans.They have often been used as symbols for fear and
loathing in literature. The very fact that we have agreed to call a
group of crows a “murder” reveals an attitude. (By comparison,
a group of owls is a “parliament,” of sparrows a “host,” of woodpeckers a “dissent.” Even groups of alligators have a comparatively mild name—they are called a “congregation.”)
Let’s go back to the plus side.The ability to make tools is commonly cited as a way of proving intelligence in an animal. Very
few animals can do that. Crows not only make and use tools; they
can use one tool to get another tool that will help them get a desired morsel of food. There are other ways that crows display
their intelligence. They are very noisy birds but all that cawing
is not just noise—they are talking. They tell each other about enemies, about sources of food and if a fellow crow is in trouble.
They even have regional dialects.If a farmer shoots a crow, entire
flocks will detour around that field for years. Crows have even
been known to memorize the route of garbage trucks.
Scientists at the University of Washington have found that crows
can recognize someone who has done them harm in the past and
that they then teach their chicks how to recognize the face of that
individual. One generation learning from the experience of a previous generation is very rare in the animal kingdom.
There are two species of crows in the Sourlands, American crow
(Corvus brachyrhynochos) and fish crow (Corvus ossifragus) but
they look almost identical. The fish crow is a little smaller and
stouter but since there is variation among individual birds that is
not a reliable way of distinguishing them. They have different
calls, however, with the fish crow calling a more nasal sound.
Both also build nests in trees and have similar flight patterns. (A
friend once told me that a crow flies like a piece of paper caught
up in a gust of wind and—with a bit of imagination—that has always made it easier for me to identify a crow in flight.) They flap
their wings constantly; you will never see a crow gliding like vultures and hawks.
In India crows are revered as a conduit to the other world. I think
it is time for Americans to get past the crows’ nasty eating habits
and recognize that this is an animal that we should at least respect.
Enjoy all of Jim’s “Seeing the Sourlands” photo essays on the
Sourland Conservancy’s website.
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Thanks to Hopewell resident and Sourland Conservancy member, Lois Marie Harrod for providing this issue’s featured
poem, The Crow. Lois’s 15th poetry collection is a chapbook,
And She Took the Heart (Casa de Cinco Hermanas Press,
2016). Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis (Cherry
Grove Press) and the chapbook How Marlene Mae Longs for
Truth (Dancing Girl Press) appeared in 2013. Links to her online work can be found at www.loismarieharrod.org.
The Crow
by Lois Marie Harrod
The crow sat leafless
in the silent tree
while others
whippoorwilled
and chickadeed
or whet, whet, whetted
the dawn
Lois Marie Harrod
with their bloody blades
of song
until the mockingbird
like me
began singing
for the absentees
the cats and whistles,
cell phones and bells
car alarms, thistles
sirens and shells.
The mockingbird
my brother
singing for others
what he could not sing for himself.
But the crow sat leafless
in the silent tree
no song for himself
or another,
a homeless bird
his black cloak
hunched around
his thin shoulders
making us all
lonely.
Copyright © 2013 Lois Marie Harrod All rights reserved
from Fragments from the Biography of Nemesis
WordTech: Cherry Grove Collection
Reprinted with permission
Sourland Journal
Jeannie Geremia Interview Spring 2016
Jeannie Geremia
We met Jeannie Geremia when her
Neshanic Garden Club organized a
show dedicated to the theme of the
Sourlands. She had just succeeded,
with the help of State Senator Kip
Bateman, getting the legislature to
approve our very first official state
butterfly, the Black Swallowtail.
She had for some time admired the
resilience of this beautiful creature
and the fact that it is found in every
one of New Jersey’s twenty-one
counties.
In the course of setting up our exhibit we quickly discovered that
Jeannie has deep roots in the Sourlands going back to the 1700’s;
two of her distant Sourland ancestors fought for George Washington in the American Revolution.
In 1806 Jeannie’s great-great- great-great grandmother Gertrude
Chamberlain married Christopher Danberry, who had been born
in a house on what is now Rileyville Road. One of their numerous great grandchildren was Jeannie’s great-grandfather Edward
Nathan Danberry. Over the years from 1892 through 1915 the
family acquired, parcel by parcel, approximately 300 acres atop
the Sourlands (“nearly all of the Neshanic Mountain”) in the area
of Long Hill Road, much of which is now owned by the
3M/Gibraltar Quarry. When Edward Danberry bought the land
it was heavily wooded, and for many years he logged the forest
and operated a lumber mill. Strips of outer bark were used as
“tugboat fender.” It took two teams of horses each day to drag
the downed trees out of the woods, and when the fenders were
fashioned would be transported to the Neshanic Station train and
on to their final destination. At a certain point most of the forest
was cleared and Ed, as so many Sourland farmers did, converted
his land to peach orchards. Edward’s father had died when Edward was a toddler of three, so early on he learned the farming
skills he needed to help his widowed mother keep the family farm
going. As a young married man Edward and his wife, Margaret
Ellen Grey Danberry, gradually converted the cleared forest
acreage into peach farming. Edward and Margaret had nine children: Harry, Cora, Theodore who
died in infancy, Martin, Pete, Gertie,
Evvie, Abner, and Raymond.
Some of the wonderful stories Jeannie tells she learned from recorded
interviews with her Great Aunt
Gertrude Danberry Layton (19032004), and her Grandmother, Eva
(Evvie) Danberry Lake (1905-1999)
who grew up on the family’s Sourland Mountain farm. All the children
had chores. For Aunt Gertie the most
memorable was the shared responsibility with little sister Evvie of de-
capitating a live chicken. The way Gertie remembers it, she was
supposed to hold the chicken firmly while Evvie dealt it a fatal
slice. However, Evvie missed, Gertie let go, and the chicken escaped. In Evvie’s retelling of this very same tale, it was Evvie
that held the chicken for Gertie to deliver the fatal blow, but Gertie proved to be too squeamish, hence, the slice wasn’t fatal, and
the girls had to chase down the sorrowful chicken.
In addition to chores and time to play, of course they all went to
school. They had to cross Rock Brook, which was much bigger
than it is now, over a long bridge. Gertie recalls that it seemed
like a river at the time but when she returned to look at it in the
1990’s it had dwindled to not much more than a trickle. After
heavy rains the bridge would be under water, too dangerous to
cross on foot, so their father would drive them over the bridge to
school in a wagon.
Health care in the early part of the twentieth century failed to
heal chronic conditions which today are often curable. Gertie
and Evvie’s older sister Cora as a teenager developed what the
doctor called “abscesses” which Gertie later realized was cancer.
She was very ill for a long time and her uncles from Trenton
brought chocolates for Cora as a special treat when they came to
visit. In her seventeenth and eighteenth years Cora lay in bed
and “just wasted away.” Cora and her little brother Theodore are
buried in the Danberry family cemetery deep in the woods off
Long Hill Road
It is hard for us, a hundred years later, to imagine what it must
have been like to live such a hard life far from any city lights,
without television, cars, and so many other conveniences that we
take for granted. But there were
strong family values and a work ethic
that provided a sense of security and
self-worth.
Jeannie’s Grandmother, Evvie, compared her childhood to that of Anne of
Green Gables, after viewing the series in 1997, and identified with Anne
in a knowing and loving way.
For Andrea Bonette’s complete interview with Jeannie Geremia and for
more delightful tales of life in the
Sourlands, visit www.sourland.org,
and choose “Sourland Stories.”
Danberry Cemetery Gravestones for Cora and Theodore
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Sourland Conservancy
Eastern Redbud: A Special Sourlands Tree
When winter’s stark beauty releases
its grip on the landscape, we welcome even the tiniest spring flowers,
their dormancy broken by the sun’s
warmth captured by the thawing
earth. The real drama comes when
the sap begins to flow and buds on
the trees swell and then burst open,
dappling the forest with fresh, bright
green and a floral palette ranging
from white to purple. In the Sourland region, one special tree stands
out, perhaps because of its rarity as
well as its delicate beauty: Eastern
Redbud (Cerciscanadensis).
Photo and Article by Patricia Sziber
Eastern Redbud is more a southern species; it is native to woodlands from northern Florida to New Jersey and extends west to
the Great Plains. Spotty populations occur north to Massachusetts. While globally secure, it is listed as Endangered in New
Jersey, critically imperiled and apparently restricted to certain
conditions or to a very small geographical area. Lucky for us,
one of those areas is the Sourlands region. There is a nice population near the summit of Baldpate Mountain in Hopewell Township, within easy viewing for visitors to the Ted Stiles Preserve.
A close look at Redbud blossoms tells you that it is a member of
the pea family. This is an understory multi-trunk tree that favors
open woodlands or forest edges
and is usually no more than 20
feet tall in our area. Flowers
may range from pink to reddish
purple and are a standout as the
forest just begins to leaf out in
early spring. Butterflies harvest
nectar from the flowers and
honeybees utilize the pollen.
Unfortunately, the foliage and
twigs are attractive to deer.
Historically, Native Americans
boiled the bark to make tea to
treat whooping cough and there
were other medicinal uses as
well.
Eastern Redbud is a very desirable landscape tree and a number
of cultivars are commercially available from plant nurseries. The
wild tree is susceptible to a number of diseases and cultivars tend
to be bred for resistance.
Note: Redbuds covered with flowers are very alluring and there
may be a temptation to clip a branch or two. Don’t! This is an
endangered plant in our state and every blossom is a potential
seed pod that will help to ensure a thriving population of a very
special and cherished Sourlands tree.
Save the Dates for Our 2016 Signature Events
Saturday, July 23, 2016 (3 pm – 10 pm)
Rain date: Sunday, July 24, 2016
(2 pm – 9 pm)
Tickets on sale now:
www.sourlandmusicfest.org
Saturday, September 10, 2016
(This a rain or shine event!)
Registration begins on May 1st:
www.sourlandspectacular.org
Sign-up to receive our eNewsletters for registration and
information about our hikes and educational programs, at
www.sourland.org.
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Thank You to Our 2015 Donors!
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Sourland Cuisine: Slow-Cooker Venison Sloppy Joes
Ingredients
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1/4 pound bacon
2 pounds venison stew meat
1 large yellow onion, chopped
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup wine vinegar
1 tablespoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 tablespoon prepared Dijon-style mustard
1 cup ketchup
salt and pepper to taste
Directions
1.
Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Remove from skillet,
crumble and set aside. Brown stew meat in bacon grease for flavor.
2.
Put onion, sugar, vinegar, cumin, chili powder, garlic, mustard, ketchup, salt and pepper in slow cooker
and mix well. Add bacon and venison and stir together.
3.
Cook for a minimum of 8 hours on Low setting. Use a fork to separate the meat into a thick and yummy
Sloppy Joe-style barbecue.
Send your favorite venison recipe to [email protected]!