Roy Wilson of the Porter County Buyer's Group recently donated and delivered one 941 pound steer to The Caring Place in Valparaiso, IN. Roy passed along that Farmers and Hunters Feeding The Hungry donated the processing of the meat and we wanted to let you know how grateful we are. We've also publicly expressed our gratitude to all who made this possible on our Facebook page! 

You will be receiving an official acknowledgement letter from our CEO in the mail, but we also wanted to personally contact you to let you know how meaningful this gift is to our shelter and the clients we serve. Thank you for working with Roy to make this happen. And thank you for all that your organization does to help organizations like ours and people in need. 

With warm regards and gratitude, 
Amy Blythe and The Caring Place

​The Frederick Community Action Agency would like to express our deepest gratitude to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry for their support every year!  Without your support, many of the families facing food insecurity in Frederick County would not have meat for their meals they prepare for their families.  Also, deer meat provides the essential protein that we need and is so much healthier than processed meat. 

Again, thank you very much for your continued support and we look forward to future donations from Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry! ~ Michele Ott, Frederick Community Action Agency

"This final round of 2020 honorees showcases the best and brightest spirits of their communities. They stepped up to provide critical resources and create pathways for vulnerable neighbors, friends and families facing life and death struggles. It's my honor to recognize their efforts in memory of the late Governor William Donald Schaefer and his 'Do It Now' approach. Today's award recipients embody his spirit. They recognized the needs of their communities, took action and continue to inspire the rest of us to face and address our challenges."

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I want to thank you for helping our family with food provisions including deer meat.  Being single and helping my sister raise her 6 children can be quite challenging.  From a nutritional perspective, the deer meat provided protein without fat and added chemicals that donated processed meat contains.  The deer meat provides the same flexibility in different meals that beef provides, only it is much healthier.  Our family enjoyed the meat especially when we used it in chili.  Each pack of meat fed 8 people with some left over to partially feed lunch meal the next day.

​I also helped deliver food boxes that contained the deer meat to other homes in our school community.  Many of these families had no transportation to come to the school to pick up the meals.  A memory I will never forget was when we were knocking on a trailer door.  It seemed no one would answer so we left it on the steps.  It was cold and we weren’t worried about it spoiling.  As we were stepping away, a little girl about 11 or 12 opened the door, saw the boxes and shouted excitedly into the trailer, “We’ve got food!”
 
Supporting the people who provide the deer meat is a much needed essential in our community.  The deer is plentiful, and hunters who reach their limit often donate the deer knowing it can be used in local food banks.  But there are no processing plants to turn the deer into food for the table.  Nor would we want that as it would remove the clean natural healthy chemical free protein that deer meat provides.  The flexibility of meals with the meat makes it a choice meat.

The North Georgia Foothills FHFH chapter (GA-08) serving Forsyth, Dawson and Hall counties ​of Georgia celebrated its 2nd year affiliation with The Jericho House through FHFH's meat processor, Southers Deer Processors of Murrayville, GA.  Joe Schuster, FHFH coordinator for North Georgia Foothills, shared this about the importance of the donating venison to organizations such as The Jericho House:

Jericho House is a Christ-centered drug and alcohol recovery program located in the beautiful Sautee Nacoochee valley in the mountains of North Georgia. It ministers healing and restoration to men caught in addiction using biblical counseling, teaching, small groups and work programs.

In January of 2020, my participating meat processor Chuck Cotzer, asked if we could direct our meat donation to someone he knew with an admirable program - Larry McKenna of Jericho House. I contacted Larry to offer some meat and he immediately replied with a hearty 'yes and thank you!' I checked in with Larry recently to learn more about how he and Chuck had gotten to know each other...

"Joe, a few years back I met my friend and someone that I call my brother, Chuck, as we shared a mutual love for motorcycles. From there we learned that we had common interest in hunting and harvesting deer. I have hunted north Georgia and have brought all my deer to be processed through his processing,' said Larry. 'I also got to know that Chuck has a big heart for those in need and now we have been blessed to receive a bounty of deer meat thanks to you and Chuck. The food aids us in our budget for feeding 25 men in our recovery program and we are truly thankful!"