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There’s a lot of confusion - and outright misinformation - about hunters and hunting floating around, but a new nationwide program based in Asheville NC looks to clear it up, promote the activity and make it easier for hunters to get important food to the needy.
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Backyard Bow Pro: Joe Lasher
Welcome to the blog for Gamedinner and our Backyard Bow Pros!
Blogger: Joe Lasher
For me, it’s always been about the experience. My father always said I had to learn things the hard way. I choose to call it “taking the scenic route through life”.
The greatest joys and experiences in my life consistently revolve around these things - family, friends, great food, hunting and fishing. No matter what, with these life elements present, I cannot help but feel satisfied daily.
I learned to hunt and fish at a young age. My Grandpa Lasher was ultimately responsible. His passion for the outdoor sports was always evident. My Dad, of course, took me bream fishing, trout fishing, squirrel hunting, and dove hunting at a really young age. Until I was 12 years old, we lived on a mountain side with plenty of small game, a rushing creek full of crayfish and salamanders, and a small pond teaming with pollywogs and fish. I wish all kids could have that! Just before I turned 13, we moved off the mountain and into a neighborhood. My Father and his partner opened what would become a 17 year landmark restaurant and catering company in Asheville NC. I spent my formidable years in that restaurant, working with food and people. From there, and for over a decade now, I have owned and operated at successful special event and facility Management Company, with two commercial kitchens and a number of employees. Over that same decade, I have honed my hunting and fishing skills and have experienced the great joy of teaching my own children to love and respect God’s great outdoors.
This website and this company are the result of my passion – for food and the hunting and fishing lifestyle. I hope that you will join me in educating hunters and non-hunters, fishermen and non-fishermen, that legal and ethical harvesting of our wildlife resources ends with consumption.
See you in the woods or on the water!
Joe Lasher, Founder
joe@gamedinner.com
GameDinner.com and Team Backyard Bow Pro
The greatest joys and experiences in my life consistently revolve around these things - family, friends, great food, hunting and fishing. No matter what, with these life elements present, I cannot help but feel satisfied daily.
I learned to hunt and fish at a young age. My Grandpa Lasher was ultimately responsible. His passion for the outdoor sports was always evident. My Dad, of course, took me bream fishing, trout fishing, squirrel hunting, and dove hunting at a really young age. Until I was 12 years old, we lived on a mountain side with plenty of small game, a rushing creek full of crayfish and salamanders, and a small pond teaming with pollywogs and fish. I wish all kids could have that! Just before I turned 13, we moved off the mountain and into a neighborhood. My Father and his partner opened what would become a 17 year landmark restaurant and catering company in Asheville NC. I spent my formidable years in that restaurant, working with food and people. From there, and for over a decade now, I have owned and operated at successful special event and facility Management Company, with two commercial kitchens and a number of employees. Over that same decade, I have honed my hunting and fishing skills and have experienced the great joy of teaching my own children to love and respect God’s great outdoors.
This website and this company are the result of my passion – for food and the hunting and fishing lifestyle. I hope that you will join me in educating hunters and non-hunters, fishermen and non-fishermen, that legal and ethical harvesting of our wildlife resources ends with consumption.
See you in the woods or on the water!
Joe Lasher, Founder
joe@gamedinner.com
GameDinner.com and Team Backyard Bow Pro
Man, what a fantastic 2010 deer season here in North Carolina. Our Team and and friends were so blessed with AWESOME hunts. Joe Jr. really had a banner year taking more deer with a bow than his old man, and it was his first year bow hunting! In the mdst of tthe season, we launched our NEW GameDinner.com and Team Backyard Bow Pro web sites. These are proving to be fantastic tools to help spread our message of preserving and protecting our Hunter Heritage as food providers.
All the while, we've stayed focus on our mission, which is to not only bring harvest back to our families and friends, but to those less fortunate. Our Chapter of Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry was able to donate over 10,000 meals of lean, healthy, hunter harvested venison through Manna Food Bank, Churches, Shelters and Soup Kitchens in NC in 2010 alone, which puts us about 85,000 meals since we started in 2007. We could not do that without the support of our landowners, our hunters, our meat processors, our volunteers, our GameDinner.com Fundraising Events, and YOU.
If you would like to become involved with FHFH, there are several ways to show support. Attend an upcoming GameDinner.com Sponsored Event; Volunteer your time (email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it to find out more); maybe you're a beef farmer...donate beef through your local, state inspected meat processor; or simply make a financial contribution at www.fhfh.org.
I can' t tell you what a blessing it has been for me and my family to be involved with this organization and we'll continue to support it through our GameDiner.com Events and as we grow Team Backyard Bow Pro. Being involved with FHFH has helped me keep the focus on why we hunt, and, as a father raising children to be passionate about our outdoor lifestyle, it's made leading by example much easier!
until next time....SHOOT TO GRILL!
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The most common size for me this Christmas Holiday. Of course, that's inspired me to move into the new year with a new diet plan....it's called, "eat less, move more".....hopefully it will work. I guess...I've been blessed with plenty of fine, hot meals.....sadly, fine hot meals are becoming a luxury for many Americans.
Team Backyard Bow Pro and GameDinner.com are committed to preserving our hunter heritage as food providers. Through GameDinner.com sponsored events, we raise money for our Chapter of Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry. Our field team (the Backyard Bow Pros) then works with landowners to assist with deer damage problems during the regular season and through depredation hunting in the summer months. Most of the deer harvested by our team are donated to feed those less fortunate in our communities through our chapter of FHFH. So far, we've been able to feed over 75,000 meals of lean, healthy, hunter harvested venison through Manna food bank, soup kitchens, churches and more. On Christmas Day, some of our WNC BYBP team were volunteering at the Veterans Restoration Quarters serving the men living there a hot dinner of venison spaghetti.
We couldn't make the impact that we've made as a Team without the help of many folks. In this short video clip, we recognize Mr. Henderson of Henderson's Meat Processing in Hendersonville NC. He's a fantastic friend and has been instrumental in helping us help others. Please take a moment to view the video. To find out how you can become involved, visit the FHFH Page of our Backyard Bow Pro website.
From our family to yours......
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For quite some town now, my friends and I have been practicing quality deer management on our Western North Carolina Farm. We (the "grown ups") have always practiced "let 'em go, let 'em grow". Here is a short clip with the same title.
However.....we're ALSO GROWING HUNTERS. In most cases, young people start and QUITdeer hunting in Western North Carolina, a region not well known for it's Whitetail Poplulations. In this next video, you'll see Joe Jr. take his very first buck with a black powder gun. It's the very same deer that I let walk with a bow.
So...... "Let 'em go, let 'em grow" has two very different, yet equally important applications. For the deer, it's good QDM, but for our youth, it means: "LET 'EM GO..." = get kids in the woods and let them be successful! "LET 'EM GROW....." = let them grow as proficient and ethical hunters that will grow into mature men and women who will ultimately take our places as promoters and protectors of our Hunter Heritage.
Take a kid to the woods and LET THEM SHOOT and SCORE! It will do WAY more good for the future of our sport.
Thanks for listening..... Joe Sr.
