Mar 3, 2023

Ke Au Hou, Vol. 8

Maui Nui Venison
Ke Au Hou Maui Nui 'Ohana Newsletter
Ke Au Hou Maui Nui 'Ohana Newsletter
Field Notes. HHS PT. II - Humility
Within our teams, we think of humility as a true willingness to put our teammates and our mission first every day. This means each team member must choose to set aside their ego, pride, and need for recognition, which, of course, is easier said than done.
Team scoring system
Aloha, Jake Muise
A Sense of Place
In part 1 and 2 of our history of hawaiis deer
their arrival to Molokaʻi in 1868, to the earliest indications of contention over deer management in Hawaiʻi with the first “Deer Bill”
Now the story winds itʻs way to the tiny island of Lānaʻi where, in 1917, brothers Harry and Frank Baldwin purchase most of the island from the
From George P. Cookeʻs, Moʻolelo o Molokaʻi, we learn the colorful story. In 1920, on an early morning free of ranch work, James Munro tasked ten cowboys with lassoing wild deer for Lānaʻi.
From the Honolulu Advertiser, article entitled, “Axis Deer on Lanai Damage Pine Fields,” 4/10/1964, pg 20.
their arrival to Molokaʻi in 1868, to the earliest indications of contention over deer management in Hawaiʻi with the first “Deer Bill”
However adaptive Lānaʻi public hunting season rules were, deer numbers eventually grew large enough to warrant an open deer hunting season
Deer carcasses hanging in the chill trailer, note variations in size. Photo by Jonathan Cabatic.
In choosing to produce truly wild venison, we are choosing to embrace extreme variability in every night of harvesting, variability everyday in the butcher shop as well as in inventory, logistics, planning and so much more
A typical scene from a night of wild-harvesting, ʻUlupalakua, Maui. Photo by Lucianna McIntosh.
A typical scene from a night of wild-harvesting, ʻUlupalakua, Maui. Photo by Lucianna McIntosh.
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