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 […]

Help a person in need with your unwanted venison. The Hunters Sharing the Harvest Program is Pennsylvania’s venison donation program and has been helping hungry people in our area for 19 years. HSH has distributed 1.5 million pounds of donated venison since 1991. HOW TO DONATE: According to the HSH website, hunters can drop off […]

John Hayes Pittsburgh Post-Gazette No one is born with the skills necessary to drop a deer. Hunters have special skills that enable them to help put food on the tables of families in need. Hunters Sharing the Harvest makes the donation easy. Step 1: Shoot a deer. Step 2: Legally tag the animal. Thoroughly field […]

QDMA/NDA is partnering with Michigan State University and Cornell University on an important chronic wasting disease (CWD) research project, and your participation is valuable, regardless of whether you hunt in or near a CWD zone or state. We are asking you to please complete a survey to tell us a little more about your behavior […]