Through the nonprofit organization Hunters Helping the Hungry, hunters can donate deer to approved butchers, who process the venison and pass it on to regional food banks. That way, hunters share the gift of sustenance while addressing the overpopulation of deer in New Jersey.

Participating butchers provide donated venison to Fulfill (formerly the Food Bank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties) in Neptune; Mercer Street Friends Food Bank in Ewing; the Foodbank of South Jersey in Pennsauken; and the…