A 93 year-old veteran of the United States Air Force is raising money for his local food pantry in Ohio by whittling down sticks.

John Hobson is a retired Air Force colonel who has spent the past few months whittling walking sticks to help those in need. Hobson sells his walking sticks for $3 each at the end of his driveway in Xenia, Ohio, where he lives with one of his four sons. All of the money that he makes from selling the walking sticks goes directly to the Xenia Area Fish Food Pantry.

Hobson has made more than 100 walking sticks so far this year, and he has donated around $650 to the pantry.

“He’s just a sweet man that gives a darn about folks that don’t have nothing,” the veteran’s son Mark told WKEF.

“It makes me feel good,” Hobson said.

“It’s something to keep him active, to keep his mind active. He’ll just sit out in the shop and my grandfather will whittle the sticks down,” his grandson Rob told Fox News, adding that of course “the weirder the wood the better.”

Rob added that while his grandfather has always been “real handy,” they “totally weren’t expecting it.”

Hobson reportedly first began dabbling in this last Christmas, when he made all nine grandchildren and their spouses personalized walking sticks. Before COVID-19, the veteran would often go to his local nonprofit, One Bistro, to donate money and help out however he could. Once this was no longer possible because of the pandemic, however, he opened up shop at the end of his driveway.

“Once he gets a batch of them, he takes them out and if he starts running low I guess he kicks it into high gear,” Rob said.

Ever since Hobson started making the news with his good deed, however, he has run out of walking sticks to sell. He has since created a GoFundMe page so that people can still make donations to the pantry, and he’s already raised over $8,100!

“To be clear, we are not selling walking sticks here,” the GoFundMe page stated. “The walking sticks are only available if you’re lucky enough to find John at the end of the driveway 🙂 This is simply another way to support his cause for those his story has touched.”