Event Lectures and Symposia Veteran Grown: Urban Farming
Date and Location
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When: Friday, March 19, 2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT
This event will be livestreamed on Facebook External and YouTube External. It will be available for viewing afterwards in the Library's Event Videos collection.
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Where: Online Only
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The Library of Congress Veterans History Project hosts a discussion panel to highlight farming as one of many unique career paths veterans take after transitioning to civilian life, and to introduce programs that exist to assist veterans who farm. This panel will feature military veterans who farm in urban settings, as well as representatives from national organizations that train and provide direct support to farmer veterans. Their specialties include beekeeping, compost management, vegetable crops and more.
Panelists will discuss the unique benefits and challenges that farming in urban communities presents. Margo Hale of the National Center for Appropriate Technology and the training program Armed to Farm will moderate the panel, which will include special remarks by Rep. Kim Schrier (WA-08), member of the House Committee on Agriculture.