The Wild Harvest Table started as a celebration of the culinary bounty represented by wild game and fish in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. Cornell Cooperative Extension nutrition educator, Moira Tidball, started the website as a resource for game and fish recipes, nutrition information, and preparation techniques. Her partner, Dr. Keith G. Tidball, in the Department of Natural Resources and Environment at Cornell University, helped with the inception of the website and recognized potential research questions evolving from the project.