Join us Thursday, March 29 for an evening benefitting Veterans to Farmers. Click here for details and to purchase tickets.
What is Veterans to Farmers?
Vision
To return the family farm to a prominent position on the American landscape.
Mission
To provide American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with pride, education and fulfillment through a permanent source of sustainable income, community and contribution: The family farm.
A Central Farm, operated by Circle Fresh Farms, Inc., provides a physical location for training in business planning, hydroponic organic growing methods, and greenhouse maintenance and construction. The Central Farm also supplies plant seedlings to Satellite Farms and markets and sells the crops grown at the Satellite Farms.
Veterans will be taught how to build environmentally controlled greenhouses of uniform size and design that utilize methods of high-tech, controlled environment crop culture. The greenhouses will protect crops from rain, snow, heat, cold, wind and insects thus named Controlled Environment Agriculture. Ongoing maintenance and consulting on optimizing the greenhouse is provided through the CFF.
Each Satellite Farm has a greenhouse and a family residence. The business model even provides an exit strategy so that Veterans can sell their business in the future through the network. This is unique in the farming world.
VTF is sponsored by Circle Fresh Farms along with with the Farmer-Veteran Coalition
