Food Bank Council of Michigan to support Michigan DNR's Hunters Feeding Michigan program

Food Bank Council of Michigan to support Michigan DNR's Hunters Feeding Michigan program

BERRIEN COUNTY, Mich. -- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced it has contracted with the Food Bank Council of Michigan to support the DNR's Hunters Feeding Michigan program, which connects donors, wild game processors, and charities to feed those in need.

Lina Robles Last Friday, a telethon was held to benefit the FIND Food Bank of the Coachella Valley, supported by our sister station KESQ News Channel 3, and they raised $347,000, which will be used to feed low-income people. According to estimates, the food bank helps 125,000 people in our region each month. It's worth mentioning that the Trump administration canceled the monthly aid that the FIND Food Bank receives. The post FIND Food Bank tele…

DNR teams up with Food Bank Council for Hunters Feeding Michigan program

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has teamed up with the Food Bank Council of Michigan for the next season of the Hunters Feeding Michigan program. The DNR’s Joe Presgrove tells us the program is a way for Michigan hunters to donate game they’ve bagged to food pantries to help those in need. “Those deer that they donate, it’s turned into ground venison, and then that ground venison is distributed across Michigan,” Presgrove said. “So …

Hunters group, food bank council work together to fight hunger

Other partners also contribute to program aimed at helping feed those in need

‘Forest-to-table’: Rural, Indigenous communities rely on forests for food, medicine and cultural values, research shows

By Victoria Witke When Roger LaBine was younger, he often drove his grandfather to the Ottawa National Forest to hunt porcupines for food and more, including birch bark-and quill baskets He’s a member of the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. A notable proportion of the population relies on public forests for food, and Michigan ranked third in a new study in the amount of wild meat hunted on public lands. The post ‘Forest-t…