Page 22—farm and Home Section, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 2000 Meat Processors And Hunters Join Forces Community Food Banks Benefit ELIZABETHTOWN (Lan caster Co.)-You might not expect to find meat processors and hunters working together in a social service project, but they did to make this year’s Hunters Sharing the Harvest (HSH) pro gram a success. The Hunters Sharing the Har vest program is a coordinated state-wide effort to channel deer meat to local food banks and soup kitchens. Successful hunt ers bag the game and elect to donate some venison to the HSH project. The meat processors butcher the carcasses and store the donated portions of meat in their coolers till they are col lected by food banks. Cumberland County butcher Rick Potteiger of Potteiger Meats, New Kingston, wanted to Ida’s Notebook isser So much has changed from the time that my mother started housekeeping to the present day. In the spring of 1919 they moved from the village of Oregon to a farm nearby. The wagon was filled with furniture, a straw filled mattress, bed linens and a few chickens. They had a big black cast iron stove delivered to the ten-room house. My father got a cow and a calf from his parents. When my mother came down stairs in the morning, she used wood chips and kindling to start a fire. Sometimes corn cobs soaked in kerosene were used too. My parents ate a lot of mush and pork pudding. We roasted field corn in the oven and when it was thoroughly dried it was shelled into a big metal tub with everyone helping with the job. I remember going to a mill with my father on a big two-horse Co lumbia wagon to have the corn ground into cornmeal. My mother did her ironing by putting a metal iron on the top of the stove. She had two irons and one was heating while she used the other one. She starched most everything and so our clothes were quite stiff. I still have the drysink in which our dishes were washed. We got hot water out of a reser voir on the side of the wood stove and then carried the water Hawaii Farm Tour The Best Escorted Vacations, You’ll Ever Find 15 Days 4 Islands Add $lOO for some departure cities Departs every Tuesday, January 16 through January 30, 2001 Includes airfare Hawaiian owned hotels, transfers, baggage handling Escort flying with you from island to island, staying in OAHU, HAWAII (Kona & Hilo), MAUI & KAUAI Sightseeing includes Honolulu City Tour with Pearl Harbor, Volcano National Park, Kona Coffee Plantation Tour, Parker Cattle Ranch Museum, Orchid Nursery, Macadamian Nut Factory Tour, Wailua Riverboat Cruise, Fern Grotto Guava Plantation, plus more as listed in brochure VMUvacations Open Sunday - PPOD - Groups Welcome 1-800-888-8204 Our 33rd Year - Over a million satisfied customers “put a little energy” into the HSH project. “Last year our shop alone donated 1,300 pounds of venison to the pro gram” he said. “This year our goal is 2,000 pounds. We could collect millions of pounds with a little effort.” Potteiger chal lenged other meat processors to get hunters to donate more veni son to food banks than his shop does. “Whatever shop beats ours will get $2OO in prize money.” The results of Potteiger’s Cumberland County challenge aren’t in yet. In Indiana County, seven meat processors announced that they would be participating in the Hunters Sharing the Harvest project. Four meat firms in Jef ferson County made themselves available to collect and store outside to empty it. Our soft water was in a cistern under the summerhouse and our drinking water was pumped from a 65- foot hand-dug well. Many of the small utensils that were used long ago are still being used such as graters, cups, and spoons but electrical gadgets make our kitchen duties much easier. Seldom do we use crocks for applebutter or for storing meat after butchering as they did 80 years ago. Now many storage items are made of plastic. And, we do not spend most of our lives in the kitchen anymore. From venison donations. Across Penn sylvania, scores of other meat processors have helped hunters donate venison to feed their hungry neighbors. Food Banks Include Venison On The Menu In Indiana County, calls from hunters expressing interest in donating venison have the Com munity Action Program looking forward to a bountiful winter feed for the 1,500 households served each month by 19 food pantries in the county. Executive director Sandi Dill says that 5,229 pounds of veni son have been donated by hunt ers since the program began in 1991. She expects heavy dona tion this year and gives venison donors a pat on the back. “Pro viding the deer meat for needy families is a considerable dona tion when you consider all the BUY, SELL, TRADE OR RENT THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED ADS IN Lancaster Farming money that hunters spend on hunting licenses and gear to be able to hunt, and then pay the cost of processing the meat before giving it away.” Jennifer Canada, project manager of the Fayette County Community Action Food bank, has high praise for the generos ity of hunters also. “Every year it just amazes us how many gen erous hunters there are in Fay ette County,” she said. 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