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Battlefields to Farmfields
Click above to watch "Battlefields to Farmfields," a segment featured in a recent "Earth Focus" special on "food heroes."
The transition from combat to civilian life is a challenge for many veterans. Farming provides not only employment, but physical respite and a means of therapeutic recovery. As the U.S. is losing farmers to retirement and the USDA is calling for one million new farmers to fill the gap, can agriculture's problem become our veterans' solution?
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