Don't want to eat your deer? Take it to a participating butcher shop, where its meat will be shared with needy people.

Hunters Sharing The Harvest (HSH) is Pennsylvania's charitable venison donation program for hunters who share their extra venison via a statewide network of participating butchers to Food Banks across Pennsylvania. HSH participating butchers, who are paid for their services through monetary donations, coordinate the meat deliveries and work with local food banks. The food banks redistribute the venison to more than 4,000 local food assistance provider organizations such as food pantries, missions, homeless shelters, Salvation Army facilities and churches, as well as needy families.Rich Eidem, Eidem's Deer Processing, is the participating processor in Carbon County. Eidem said he and his family got involved with the program last year."We just got started at the end of last year, and we didn't accept anything from HSH for our services," Eidem said. "There's no fee to the hunter, just give me the deer and we'll handle it from there."Eidem said that the deer meat is all ground into hamburger, which is commonly needed by the food banks. Once its frozen, the meat will be picked up by Carbon County HSH coordinator Chris Burkert, who delivers it."It goes to nine different food banks," Eidem said. "It's easy to do and something that will really help out the food banks.Eidem said that hunters can call him at 484-629-5275. If it's not during normal business hours, he'll still open the doors to accept the deer, he said.