It’s Deer Season at Den’s Country Meats

On November 17, I stopped by Den’s, which has won so many trophies for its meats that you’d think they’d be bringing the walls down. Proprietor Den Schaardt was busy grinding deer sausage. Rolling racks, each with 400 pounds of packed sausage, were being rolled into the smoker. He had already processed 7,000 pounds of deer sausage in a week. And sausage isn’t even the most popular produ...

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