The values and skills cultivated by military service find a natural home in the fields of agriculture, according to Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding.
Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Project
Corey Read (left), who operates Shupp Hill Farms locations near Carlisle and Tunkhannock, speaks with Scott Heckman, Centre County district conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, at the inaugural Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Conference held in February 2020, at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg.
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The inaugural Pennsylvania Veteran Farming Conference drew a standing-room-only gathering of about 75 to the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg last February.
This year’s conference, open to the public as well as military members, veterans and their families, was to have occurred at a larger venue. But, because the covid-19 pandemic is still with us, it will be held virtually Feb. 27.