The Mother Earth News Fair

This coming weekend I will be appearing as a speaker at the Mother Earth News Fair in Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. I'll be demonstrating how to turn a whole venison hindquarter into usable cuts of meat while also explaining how an adult beginner can start hunting for food. I'll also be doing a book signing and participating in other things going on at the fair.

It is very exciting to be invited to speak at this particular event. I've spent the last few years working very hard (read: devoting my entire life) towards legitimizing hunting as a critical component of the local and sustainable food movement. Mother Earth News is arguably the American publication most emblematic of the sustainable food movement. As far as I know, I am the first hunter who has ever been invited to speak about hunting for food at one of their events. The worlds of hunting and sustainable food are finally about to shake hands and formally collide with one another.

While I'm there you might notice some cameras around. Helenah Swedberg, a Swedish filmmaker is producing a documentary film about me. Show up for the book signing or the venison event and you might possibly end up in the movie.

In other news, I found out a few days ago that Cabelas will soon be carrying my first book, 'The Beginner's Guide to Hunting Deer for Food' at 36 stores as well as online and in their print catalog.

My schedules for October and November still have a lot of openings. If your school, business or organization is interested in booking me as a speaker, please feel free to shoot me an email at jack.landers@gmail.com

[Photograph used courtesy of Helenah Swedberg, copyright 2011. Helenah is photographing me while I'm photographing a fairy ring and getting ridiculously excited about finding it].