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Help For Returning Veterans Who Want To Farm

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Monday, July 9, 2012   

EAST TROY, Wis. - There is a growing demand for locally grown food in Wisconsin, and a lot of returning veterans are interested in getting into the farming business. A workshop to help these vets will be held by the National Center for Appropriate Technology at the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, East Troy, this Friday and Saturday (July 13 and 14). Details and registration are available at the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute website, www.MichaelFields.org.

One of the workshop speakers is Michael O'Goreman, executive director of the Farmer Veteran Coalition. He says farming has great appeal to veterans.

"You can't fake it, and there's something I like about that. In a lot of the corporate world, there's a lot of backstabbing and people taking credit for others' work - you know, who takes credit for the person who really did something, and who really got something done. In farming, it's on your shoulders. It's you, and if you perform, you succeed."

The sessions are led by experienced sustainable-ag educators who are farmers and veterans.

O'Goreman says great things happen when you bring together people who speak a common language.

"There's a lot of community-building and community support that comes away from these events. They tend to stay in touch with each other. They tend to trade animals and ideas and farm equipment and seeds, and they become an exciting network."

The workshop will focus on tangible, useful information, O'Goreman adds.

"It's going to teach a lot of very useful things in terms of how to set up a business, how to protect oneself legally and how to take care of the business and marketing side."

O'Goreman says large-scale corporate agriculture is not going away, but there has never been a time when more people are willing to pay a bit more to have something fresher and more local, where they have contact with the person who grows it.




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