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Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Grant Weber, Farm Manager at Vets on the Farm, talks about his experience transitioning from his long career in the Air Force to civilian life and how farming is an amazing option for many veterans. As Grant mentions, “from national security to food security”. The Epic Gardening Memorial Day Sale is live now! Buy 3 Birdies Garden Beds, Get 1 of equal or lesser value FREE! No code needed. Add 4 Birdies Garden Beds to cart and 1 will automatically be marked free. Shop here. Connect With Grant Weber: Grant Weber grew up in Ritzville, WA. Joined the Air Force and served 21 years, deployed 6 times to the Middle East. He has been at Vets on the Farm for 6 years and is currently the farm manager. He is passionate about growing and teaching people about nutritionally dense food as well as helping veterans find their new mission. Instagram Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we have a really cool
0:15.2	weight. We have Grant Weber on the show. He joined the Air Force and served for
0:19.3	21 years to put six times to the Middle East and he is now the farm manager at
0:24.8	Vets on the farm. So Grant, it's awesome to have you on man. Yeah, thanks for
0:29.1	having me. So do you mind kind of explaining the background of Vets on the
0:35.1	farm, like kind of how you got to that position? Yeah, so it's a program
0:40.0	started underneath the Spokane Conservation District, our director, Vicki
0:45.2	Carter. She always says that her favorite two people are veterans and farmers,
0:50.4	which is a pretty good group to love. And she saw the after post 9-11 Vets
0:56.4	coming back and needed a new mission and the average age of the American
1:00.4	farmers right around 60 years old. So she saw that need and she wanted to do
1:05.9	something about it. So she watched a documentary from Delaney Ellis, a good
1:10.4	friend of the farm. And she is called Battlefields to Farmfields. And that
1:15.4	inspired her to get in contact with Delaney. And then through that they kind of
1:21.4	went through to farmer veteran coalition and she met with Michael Gorman, the
1:27.8	founder of farmer veteran coalition and got the ball rolling. And then the
1:35.4	Edmund family, Edmund brothers, they donated a chunk of land for us. It's you
1:42.4	know three acres got the ball rolling there and they did a bunch of rehab. So
1:46.0	this would be our eighth growing season there. I've been I've been there six
1:49.7	seasons. And I just started volunteering. I heard about it when I got out of
1:54.6	the Air Force and moved back to the Booboon metropolis of a Ritzville middle of
1:58.8	the the Wheatland. And that's where I grew up. And then I heard about Vets on the
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