This class will provide participants with skills and resources to clean and cook wild turkeys.

It will begin with a demonstration of skinning and cutting a wild turkey into usable parts and explaining how to pluck a wild turkey (though this will not be demonstrated). Following the demonstration, we will cook both the breast and legs of a wild turkey and use the heart, liver, gizzard and carcass.

The class will conclude with participants getting hands-on experience cooking slices of wild turkey breast. We will enjoy these as a group as we reflect on our experience.

Recipes and all cooking materials will be provided, and there is no cost for this class.

Instructor John Motoviloff is Pheasants Forever’s R3 and outreach coordinator for Wisconsin, and a cookbook author.

To register, go to Go Wild and log in or create an account if you don’t already have one. Click on the Manage Safety Education tab, click “Search for Class” and select “Learn to Hunt” as Course Type and “Columbia” as County in the drop-down tabs. Register with your Customer ID number.

Registration is open to the first 10 students. Must be 18 and older to participate.