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
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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
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“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
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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.
Debbie West, Greater Pitts
burgh Community Food Bank,
was in the warehouse when ven
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ison donations were offered to
an area shelter for men. “You
could see they were so happy to
have it,” she said.
In Lancaster, some students
and faculty at Lancaster Men
nonite High School initiated
their first charitable venison
drive. They collected 68 pounds
of venison for the Water Street
Rescue Mission. The Mission’s
food service director Tom Livsey
said, “It’s always nice to get
meat, because that’s something
we can use a lot of.”
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