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About Little Farms for Veterans

Little Farms for Veterans (LFV) affords opportunities to veterans and their families to grow together through education, training, and shared experiences in regenerative agriculture. LFV provides a setting where veterans and their families develop a flexible individualized plan that focuses on traditional agricultural practices. These practices work with the land and the family for their mutual benefit. LFV offers a compassionate, supportive, and patient community that teaches unity, self-reliance, and foresight. Things that makes LFV different from existing programs: 1. LFV includes families. Rather than the spouse and children sitting on the sidelines, they work and grow together to promote a complete agricultural lifestyle that the family helps to design and achieve. 2. LFV is neither a single farm nor a single method. LFV involves dozens of farms and methods with experts, and farmers with years of experience to train the students in all aspects of agriculture. This allows students to develop a tailored post-graduation farm that meets their needs, capabilities and desires with a firm understanding on what it takes to be a farmer. 3. LFV is a total immersion-training program. Students live onsite for one calendar year. Students are involved and engaged in every facet of agriculture including planning, planting, stock management, harvesting crops, food processing, marketing, and sales. LFV provides students the most thorough understanding of what it means to be a farmer. 4. LFV supplies/aids graduates with farm acquisition and maintenance through at least four models. This includes a lease to own and farm transfer. This increases the odds of success, with little to no debt. 5. LFV partners with the veteran farmer community/cooperatives to share equipment, marketing, profits, success, effective strategies, and a legacy that to be passed on to future students and their families. partnering with OSU CFAES and Ohio USDA office of AgrAbility.

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