Key Takeaways:
- The Veteran’s Farm teaches agricultural skills while offering former military members structure, community and a path into civilian life.
- A state grant will help the nonprofit expand programs and support veterans in crisis as they wait for VA benefits.
- The program connects veterans interested in farming with an industry seeking its next generation.
After serving five years in the Marine Corps and another 10 as a Department of Defense contractor, Robert Elliott found the transition away from military life difficult. The jobs he took did not last, he said, and neither did his first attempt at college.
Elliott was at a low point.
“I started going down to a really dark place in my mind,” he said. “A lot of folks that get out of the military in the first year, statistically speaking, wind up having really hard transitional issues.”…