News & Updates

Frederick County, Maryland – The Ausherman Family Foundation has given a helping hand to Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry (FHFH) by granting them $5,000. This generous gift will enable FHFH to provide more than 10,000 additional servings of meat to people in need through local food banks and feeding programs.

For the past 18 years, the Ausherman Family Foundation has been a strong ally of FHFH, consistently backing their mission. FHFH Executive Director, Josh Wilson, expressed sincere gratitude, saying, “The Ausherman Family Foundation has been a faithful supporter of our mission to fight hunger for almost two decades! Their unwavering generosity shows how deeply they care about the well-being of local people, including children and families in the Frederick area.”

This outstanding partnership showcases the power of working together to make a positive impact on the community, ensuring that nobody in Frederick County goes to bed hungry. With the Ausherman Family Foundation’s ongoing support, FHFH remains determined to help people in need and bring hope to their lives.

The Ausherman Family Foundation, a private foundation established in 2001, is dedicated to envisioning a vibrant community in which committed nonprofit organizations effectively collaborate in a spirit of cooperation to advance superior charitable outcomes in Frederick County. The Foundation’s mission is to empower the passion for change in Frederick County, Maryland.

Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing nutritious meat to those in need through local food banks and feeding programs. Built on the values of compassion and community, FHFH encourages hunters and farmers to share their surplus and combat hunger in their local areas. Committed to ethical hunting and sustainable practices, FHFH ensures that healthy food reaches those who need it most.

For more information about Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry and their mission, please visit www.feedingthehungry.org.

We welcome three new FHFH participating meat processors in Ohio:

– E & M Deer Processing – Scio
– Whitetail Deer Processing – North Lima
– New Town Butcher – Xenia

We thank E & M Deer Processing, Whitetail Deer Processing and New Town Butcher for joining us in the fight against hunger!

We welcome The Deer Processors located in Abbeville, South Carolina as a new FHFH participating meat processor.

We thank The Deer Processors for joining us in the fight against hunger!

FHFH received this note of thanks for our donation of venison to H.O.P.E. Ministries of Delmarva located in Maryland.

“We at H.O.P.E. Ministries of Delmarva wanted to reach out and let you know how grateful we are for this organization and their partnership with farmers and hunters to help provide protein in the form of venison to ministries like ours.

We are forever grateful, first and foremost, for God’s provision and also for the support of our community and our volunteers. FHFH, in supplying us with venison, has enabled us to provide approximately 9,000 meals so far this year and over 99,000 meals, since our inception in January 2016, to those families and individuals who are in need of assistance.”

Sincerely,
H.O.P.E. Ministries Board of Directors

We welcome Yoder’s Butcher Barn located in Grantsville, Maryland as a new FHFH participating meat processor.

We thank Yoder’s Butcher Barn for joining us in the fight against hunger!

Meat Cleaver, a participating butcher shop in Denver, Colorado, has helped us coordinate distributions of venison and beef to the Fairplay Food Pantry. Recently the food pantry provided these photos along with a note expressing their appreciation for this support…

“Today we served 161 Individuals and 69 families. We distributed all of the ground meat products, chicken, pork and processed fish along with hundreds of pounds of fruits and vegetables and dry goods. It was a very successful day. The extra ground venison helped ensure that everyone got some meat! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support!”

 

Mayor Frank Just of Fairplay, Colorado

We are grateful for our participating butcher shops along with the partner agencies that receive and distribute the meat donated by generous hunters and farmers!

Canal Lewisville United Methodist Food Bank is a new local mission partnership with FHFH in Coshocton County. They distributed a total of 1,000 pounds of meat – protein for 4,000 meal servings – donated by FHFH this year.

Mid-Shore FHFH donated venison to Aaron’s Place in Denton, Maryland and we received a note of thanks which demonstrates the great need for meat by food banks:

We picked up a nice donation of venison. As soon as the truck was unloaded and the boxes of venison were placed on carts to be bought into the pantry, the people that were lining up at the pantry saw the venison and started asking if they could have any. We distributed maybe 12-15 boxes of venison before it was even fully placed in the pantry. It was like, one minute it was here and the next minute it was ALL gone. Once one person found out what we had, they told others and it all went – mostly ground in tubes, some steaks. And that’s my story – it was like it vanished without a trace!!! Thanks! – Cheryl Beulah, Executive Director, Aarons Place, Inc.

Coshocton County FHFH donated meat to Shepherd’s Christian Assembly in Coshocton, Ohio. They use the meat provided by FHFH along with other donations from the community to serve free midday meals to the needy. The church has fed the hungry each week for the last 17 years.

We thank Shepherd’s Christian Assembly for partnering with FHFH to provide food and be a beacon of hope for people struggling with hunger.