Bison School Newsletter
In MONTH your child tried FOOD ITEM with locally grown bison from FARM NAME in CITY.
Prepare this delicious recipe with your family and ask your child(ren) if they can answer the
following trivia questions.
1. Bison are the largest wild land mammals in North America. How large are the average bulls
(males) and cows (females)?
2. Today there are an estimated 250,000 bison in managed herds, but how many were in
North America before European civilization moved west?
3. Bison is not gamy or wild tasting, and tastes much like what other meat?
Recipe
1. Bulls (males) can stand up to 6 feet tall at the shoulders and weight more than
2,000 pounds. They also have heavy horns and a large hump of muscle,
which supports their enormous head and thick skull. A mature cow (female)
weighs 1,000-1,200 pounds.
2. Bison freely roamed the Minnesota prairie, estimates on the number of bison
that once roamed the North American continent ranged from 30 million to over
60 million. There are over 12,000 in Minnesota today. Minnesota is second
nationally for the number of bison producers and seventh in number of animals.
3. Bison meat is similar to beef and is cooked in much the same way. The taste
is often indistinguishable from beef, although bison tends to have a fuller,
richer (sweeter) flavor.