Frontline to Farm

The National Center for Appropriate Technology and the United States Botanic Garden (USBG) are offering veterans’ urban agriculture training in Madison, Wisconsin,  September  8-12, 2025.  See Armed to Farm to apply.

• Frontline to Farm Beginner (poster) and Alumni Trainings

• • When: June 9-13, 2025
  • Where: Boone, N.C.

• Frontline to Farm Beginner and Alumni Trainings

  • When: June 24-28, 2024
  • Where: Boone, N.C.

• Frontline to Farm Beginner and Alumni Trainings

  • When: June 11-16, 2023
  • Where: Boone, N.C.

  • Many first time trainees and alumnis joined us our Farmer Veteran Training to learn about business planning, budgeting, recordkeeping, marketing, USDA programs, livestock production, fruit and vegetable production and more. Participants were given the oppurunity to tour many farms accross the high country, and alumnis were invited back for our networking dinner at Shipley Farms. They gain a strong foundation in the basic principles of operating a sustainable farm. In addition, attendees join a nationwide network of supportive farmer-veterans and agricultural advisors.

    This training is for veterans in the Southeast, with preference given to those in North Carolina.  Learn more

• Armed to Farm

  • When: July 24 – 29, 2022
  • Where: Boone, N.C.

  • The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) is partnering with Appalachian State University’s Frontline to Farm program to bring its Armed to Farm training to North Carolina for the first time.

    Armed to Farm participants learn about business planning, budgeting, recordkeeping, marketing, USDA programs, livestock production, fruit and vegetable production and more. Participants gain a strong foundation in the basic principles of operating a sustainable farm. In addition, Armed to Farm attendees join a nationwide network of supportive farmer-veterans and agricultural advisors.

    This training is for veterans in the Southeast, with preference given to those in North Carolina.  Learn more

• Visiting Author, Mari K. Eder:

  • When: Thursday February 24, 2022
  • Where: Plemmons Student Union, room 169
    

  • Author and US Army Maj. Gen. Mari K. Eder will explore the topic of change and that space between what was and what will be through the stories of women who served in WWII. Their transition to civilian life serves as a framework for discussing modern-day transformation in the midst of a pandemic. What will transform and what will be left behind? 

    Sponsored by the Appalachian State University Military Affairs Committee, Student Veteran Services, and Department of Military Science and Leadership.  More info here