Giving back through life-changing experiences. Help us build a self-sustainable Urban Farm and Home for our veterans.
Let's rebuild the foundation for our Vets by providing Urban-Farm & Home, a community where they can work & live. “The New Healthy Veteran Lifestyle”
According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 37,828 veterans are homeless on any given night. We’re not just trying to end veteran homelessness, but create a self-sustainable and healthy lifestyle.
What are the attributes of this program? We have the proven formula to provide the veterans with training, employment, and making each veteran self-sufficient and self-sustainable. The Vets should have the opportunity to become an Entrepreneur Business Owner in the Vet2Farmers development program. We shall build a Vets2Farmers community with Tiny-Homes and Hydroponic Greenhouse Urban Farm and more.
The Vets2Farmers program shall provide care and training in becoming a Veteran Farmer. This will be for a transitional period, where the homeless Vets can call it their home.
These Vets will be provided free Room & Board during the 2-week certification training program in hydroponics farming. Upon certification, a full-time job will be provided.
Once Vets are able to build creditworthiness (about 6 months), we shall assist the Vets to purchase an Urban-Farm-Home utilizing VA & USDA programs. The Vets can become an Entrepreneur Business Farmer within the V2F community.
The Vets2Farmers business model presents an opportunity for each individual Entrepreneur Farmer a yearly revenue of over $100,000. We are enlisting our Vets on the road to financial independence and being self-sustainable.
Our goal is to build a community of Veterans, so they can live among people with similar experiences. (As suggested by the VA's studies, which illustrates to be the ideal living atmosphere for their stability and happiness ... “camaraderie”)
Hydroponics farming allows year-long growth (6-10 times more harvests than soil farming), which now makes farming a worthy business. Hydroponics provide better working conditions and allows 11-15 harvests per year. It only requires 5-20 % of water compared to soil farming, making it very Eco-Friendly.
With added nutrients, a mineral-based formula, the Organic Vegetables provide 3-10 times more nutrition than produce purchased at the supermarkets.
Assistance is provided from USDA and we have the support of our affiliate "The Terrace Foundation" which has been farming for many years, to handle all of the training. The Terrace Foundation with its success model, the proceeds from growing vegetables has been providing over 30,000 free meals per year to low-income elderly in the local Santa Barbara neighborhood.
The average American farmer is 58 years old and is nearing retirement.
The USDA estimates the nation needs 100,000 new farmers to replace them over the next decade.
Hundreds of thousands of American veterans, including those who volunteered for the military after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, are separating from the service every year and seeking meaningful careers in the civilian sector.
There are about 10-20 veteran suicides everyday. Vets need our care & training to rebuild their lives and become self-sustainable.
Americans are increasingly buying local and organic food – the market share grew more than 10 fold in the last decade, despite a major recession.
Veterans are 45 percent more likely to start their own businesses than other Americans. They have the physical and mental toughness to forge successful careers in agriculture. Years of service have honed their ability to lead; to work independently or as part of a team; to plan, adapt, and overcome crises; and to accomplish whatever mission is before them.
The business model shows individual revenues over $100,000 per year .
Provide jobs for veterans after they learn how to become Hydroponic farmers.
Help Vets find affordable Urban-Farm-Home utilizing VA & USDA programs.
Provide easy market access for the Fresh Food they produce to satisfy the robust and growing public demand. And reinvigorate the farm sector with skilled new growers, eager to begin their next phase of life.
Vets2Farmers Program is a multilayered, hands-on educational program that develops new farmers; capitalizes on the growing market locally in sustainably-grown live foods; and encourages entrepreneurship and job creation..
There will be housing (Tiny Homes - Room & Board) provided for transitional Vets2Farmers with training, followed by full-time employment.
We shall assist these Vets to build their credit with a secured job. In transitioning from temporary housing to becoming an Urban-Farm-Home owner within 6-12 months.
We shall assist the Vets with finance programs provided by the VA and USDA to finance the Home & Farm. These Vets will become Entrepreneur Farmers
There are 18.2 million veterans in the US and 1.3 million active-duty soldiers. The average suicide rate of veterans is 22 every day. We need to help our veterans help themselves with a new "Veteran Lifestyle" and be proud to be an American Vet again
There will be houses built to accommodate the special needs of some Vets, such as ADA conformity and a convenient living area layout.
Provide training and continuing education, temporary & permanent housing within the community, and
Co-op farming to share workload and responsibility.
Live amongst Vets... camaraderie!
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals and improve the conditions for our Vets. Your generous donation will help fund our mission. Please designate the amount of donation.
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Hydroponics is added with mineral-rich nutrients. These vegetables have proven to carry 4-10 times more nutrition than supermarket produce, which are grown in depleted soil farms managed with pesticides and chemical fertilizer.
Hydroponics' Fresh Fruits & Vegetables "FFV" are very nutritional to keep our body healthy... as Nature had intendeds.
USDA report shows that America shall be short of 100,000 farmers by the year 2030.
There are pockets of FOOD-DESERTS in many of our inner cities, so we need more locally-grown Fresh Foods to keep Americans healthy.
The Vets can provide the sustainable farming.
Vets get Free Room and Board, plus job training, followed by a permanent job. Then the Vets are on the way to becoming an entrepreneur Vet Farmer.
The Philosophy
"Sow, Grow, Harvest, Prepare
and Share"
We help you plant the seeds, grow the food to support yourself, and also share with others in need and become a mentor to help more Vets.
All Veterans, we call upon you to help or our Country again.
We need you to help feed America, town-by-town with locally grown Fresh Foods.
Become a Veteran Farmer and on the way to being independent and an entrepreneur farm owner.
Hydroponics is the future for growing Nutritional Organic Fresh Fruits & Vegetables.
Mr. Jung is instrumental in supporting the V2F program. providing chance to grow High-value crops such as the Jumbo Shiitakes mushroom, organic sprout ginseng, and some methods to enhance vegetables with ingredients to help protect against cancer; and a variety of flowers
Mr. Jung's experience in dealing with American companies and familiarity with the situations in the states is beneficial in aiding our V2F program. We shall be able to increase revenues to each farm with specialized crops targeting health and wellbeing.
We're proud to say that no chemical additives are used at this Dandy's Farm. Only natural nutrition is added and.
We also use a detoxification process for plants that had been exposed to pesticides or other chemicals, with his unique and special know-how.
Check out this great video - Terrace Foundation in Santa Barbara is our affiliate farm
A nonprofit is as strong as the community that holds it up. Together, we can do more than we can do alone. Let's bring our abilities and passions together to affect real change.
There are many ways to join us and support our mission. Contact us to find out more about volunteer opportunities, fundraising events, and ways that you can get our message to your friends and family.
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