Volunteers with Veterans Garden of Augusta, a new nonprofit project in Staunton, are working to create a healing, hands-on space for local veterans to connect, learn and grow, both in the garden and beyond it.
VGA recently secured a one-third acre lot on Frontier Drive in Staunton, and volunteers have begun preparing the land for their first growing season.
The garden will serve as a horticulture therapy and community learning space, offering classes in vegetable gardening, mushroom cultivation, beekeeping and food preservation…