Pennsylvania is asking hunters to get fired up for a charitable cause. The coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated food insecurity across the nation, affecting over 2 million Pennsylvanians. Now, the state’s secretary of agriculture is asking hunters to donate their harvest to help feed those in need this season. To read the rest of the article, click […]

(WBNG) — More important this year than ever before, Pennsylvania hunters can help feed the hungry across the state. The state’s Department of Agriculture has partnered with Hunters Sharing the Harvest, an organization that helps hunters donate venison to PA food banks. Last year, the group helped distribute more than 800,000 meals to Pennsylvania families […]

Pennsylvania Pressroom 11/10/2020 Harrisburg, PA – Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding joined Hunger-Free Pennsylvania and Hunters Sharing the Harvest today to encourage Pennsylvania’s more than 850,000 licensed hunters to consider donating a deer to Pennsylvanians in need of food this hunting season. “In a year of challenges, Hunters Sharing the Harvest is a reliable tradition that […]

Pennsylvania Outdoor News Oct. 23, 2020   The demand for donations of venison from food banks has skyrocketed since COVID-19 arrived in March. But John Plowman, executive director of Hunters Sharing the Harvest, believe hunters can fulfill the need. Since March, Plowman said, the requests from food banks for venison has increased by 50%. He […]

By Doyle Dietz, Outdoors Editor Hunters Sharing the Harvest chairman and South Central Region representative Rick Fetrow of Carlisle, who is a licensed butcher, demonstrates the proper method to field dress a deer before donating it to one of the participating meat processors in the HSH program that supplies meat to food banks and needy […]

John Hayes Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The medical crisis that spawned an economic crisis has caused a hunger crisis in Pennsylvania. Pandemic-related business closings have led to layoffs or pay reductions for more than 1 million Pennsylvanians since March. Food banks in the state report that the number of residents requiring food assistance has grown from 1.5 […]