How Hunting Helps Fight Hunger In Our Community

The San Antonio Food Bank’s Hunters for the Hungry program invites local hunters, processors, and managed land deer program permit holders to contribute specific animals for donation. The program focuses on lean protein, a crucial element in combating hunger and fostering hope for families and individuals facing hunger in Southwest Texas.

Participants can deliver legally tagged, field-dressed wild game (excluding fowl and pork/wild hog) to the Food Bank’s advanced processing facility or designated partner processors, ensuring the preparation of food for distribution to those in need.

To request a trailer or schedule a pick-up please contact Dayna Robokowski. Call or text 210-431-8485. Email drobokowski@safoodbank.org

Ways You Can Help

Hunters

  • Bring your legally tagged, field-dressed wild game to our processing facility or one of our participating meat processors. There is no cost to you!
  • When you purchase your Texas hunting license, choose the option to donate to Hunters for the Hungry. Your donation supports meat processing fees.

Managed Land Deer Program Permit Holders

  • Deer harvesting on private lands in Texas is an important aspect of habitat management and conservation. Land owners enrolled in either the MLD harvest option or conservation option are able to take advantage of extended season lengths and harvesting opportunities. The San Antonio Food Bank is an outlet for land owners to donate deer removed from their property. Land owners can drop off deer directly at our processing facility or we can coordinate the use of a fully refrigerated trailer.

Processors

    • Once registered as a participating processor with the San Antonio Food Bank, you will be advertised on our website and in promotional materials. Prior to each hunting season, partner processors will receive donation receipts, two-pound chub packs for donated venison, and promotional materials. Processors are reimbursed at a market rate that is negotiated in an annual Hunters For The Hungry agreement with the Food Bank.

    Casa Venado

    The San Antonio Food Bank’s Casa Venado is a wild game processing facility located at the Food Bank’s Mays Family Culinary Center.

    Currently Accepting Donations Of

    Axis Deer – Blackbuck – Fallow Deer – Mule Deer –  Nilgai – Oryx  – Silka Deer – Whitetail Deer

    Drop Off

    • Donations of legally tagged and field dressed deer can be dropped off 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the on-site cooler. 5200 Historic, Old Hwy 90 W, San Antonio, TX 78227
    • Enter the San Antonio Food Bank campus through 5200 Historic Old Hwy 90, at Entrance 4.
    • Drive down the driveway until you reach the entrance with the Hunters for the Hungry sign on the gate.
    • Call 210-431-8308 to receive the access code and enter it onto the gate keypad.
    • Enter the gate and proceed to the drop-off double doors under the Hunters For The Hungry sign and awning.
    • Enter the access code on the keypad located adjacent to the doors affixed to the wall.
    • Doors will close automatically after 1 minute unless motion is detected.
    • When dropping off deer, please ensure that all game is field dressed and legally tagged.
    • Feel free to use the powered hoist system to assist with offloading your game.
    • Complete the required Texas Parks & Wildlife paperwork and leave tags in the designated location on the wall.
    • If needed, a water hose and spray nozzle are available to rinse the entryway and your vehicle.

    Request A Trailer

    • The San Antonio Food Bank has two refrigerated bumper pull trailers available for you to use for group hunts, MLD cull hunts etc. Each trailer is equipped with a propane generator, refrigeration unit, hanging rails, hooks, and electric hoist. Trailers are free of charge to use donors must provide their own vehicle and hitch to haul the trailer and proof of motor vehicle insurance. 

    Request A Pick-Up

    • Donors who have a minimum of 15 deer to donate can schedule a pickup of game that has been tagged and field dressed. Please note a minimum of 72-hour lead time is required to schedule pickup.

     

    To request a trailer or schedule a pick-up please contact Dayna Robokowski.

    Call or text 210-431-8485.
    Email drobokowski@safoodbank.org

    Volunteer Opportunities

    This hunting season, we are asking for volunteers to help process and prepare the donated venison for distribution to families in need.

    This volunteer experience is perfect for military groups, veterans, retirees, scouts and anyone that is interested in learning new skills while processing deer to feed the community. Be prepared to get dirty!

    Tasks: 

    Volunteers will help with skinning, quartering, deboning and grinding of donated white tail and mule deer. All tools and equipment will be provided. Volunteer duties also include cleaning and sanitizing of tables, cutting boards, grinder equipment and floors.

    Hunters for the Hungry is proudly sponsored by

    For more information about Hunters For The Hungry, please contact:

    Dayna Robokowski
    210.431.8485
    drobokowski@safoodbank.org