Project Overview
Farming offers a viable avenue for
veterans assimilating into society capitalizing on skills that made them
successful in the military. Through previous BFRDP projects, our team has
supported hundreds of veterans through research and training opportunities
yet there continues to be a critical need to train and support the next
generation of new farmers. We continue to network with the veterans
that have participated in our bootcamps, internships and workshops and asked
them for their priorities for our program. The top requests from these
new farmers were to have more extensive training past initial boot camp
programs; and to provide the training we have for other livestock species to
include beef cattle production. Therefore our objectives for this
proposal are to: 1) enhance existing courses and add training modules for
pasture beef production to our New Farmer Online Training Program; 2) provide
a more comprehensive suite of training opportunities including Armed to Farm
2.0 Boot Camp, and intensive internship opportunities; and 3) expand custom networking
and mentoring systems to effectively support a new generation of farmers.
Number of Participants: 617
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