what is vet2ag?

1. Veterans are leaving their life in the military, a life with strong defined mission and purpose, and struggle to find their own mission in civilian life. This leads to despondency, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, self-harm, suicide, and sometimes harm to others including their families.  
2. The U.S. from food insecurity. We do not produce enough food to feed our population, and much of the food that we do produce is severely lacking in nutrients due to poor farming/ranching practices. Food security issues are national security problems. We take that seriously.
3. America's generational farmland, those farms and ranches that have been in families for decades and longer, are either no longer being farmed by the younger generations, or are on the brink of being abandoned to large corporations, often foreign corporations.

By training veterans with young families to run their own farms and ranches in a cooperative system under the Vet2Ag umbrella, we at least partially address these issues.

1. Veterans already believing in and willing to defend the American dream get a chance to live it while improving America’s food security. They learn to not only produce food stuffs for their family and the Vet2Ag community, but provide nutrient-dense food from their local and regional communities. They also train their young children to be the next generation of American farmers and ranchers.
2. As Vet2Ag’s program grows, its ability to provide sustainable produce to all areas in the U.S. increases. Plus, America’s respect for its Veteran community becomes one of not only appreciation for their willingness to defend the land and people of this great country through arms, but also to give their all to keep it free from external control by peaceful means. They advance America not only by giving their lives, but by living the dream!
3. Vet2Ag will aggressively negotiation with the older farming and ranching population to ensure that its Veteran participants farm and ranch the generational farmland that might otherwise lie dormant, be underutilized, or perhaps even worse … be sold to large corporations and foreign corporations creating potential national security issues.