SPC Mathew Brady 349768 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How do many of you feel about the use of farming as a form of therapy for veterans with TBI and PTSD? My organization has been using bottle calves and other forms of farming to help struggling veterans for the last two years but always looking for advice to make it better and more successful. Our goal is to empower veterans interested in farming to know that they can farm on their own with proper knowledge and training. Nothing more satisfying to me than helping a fellow veteran follow their dreams 2014-12-01T12:35:05-05:00 SPC Mathew Brady 349768

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>How do many of you feel about the use of farming as a form of therapy for veterans with TBI and PTSD? My organization has been using bottle calves and other forms of farming to help struggling veterans for the last two years but always looking for advice to make it better and more successful. Our goal is to empower veterans interested in farming to know that they can farm on their own with proper knowledge and training. Nothing more satisfying to me than helping a fellow veteran follow their dreams

2014-12-01T12:35:05-05:00 2014-12-01T12:35:05-05:00 CW5 Private RallyPoint Member 350350

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="451515" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/451515-spc-mathew-brady">SPC Mathew Brady</a>, animals have long been used for therapy, so I'm not surprised to hear that you are using bottle calves to help struggling veterans. That sounds like a great idea!<br /><br />My question would be this: Going from "therapy" with bottle calves to running your own farm seems to be quite a giant step. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think or say that. Do you have a program or a training plan to go from "therapy" with bottle calves to farming on one's own?

2014-12-01T20:12:47-05:00 2014-12-01T20:12:47-05:00 SFC Boots Attaway 350405

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a class="dark-link bold-link" role="profile-hover" data-qtip-container="body" data-id="451515" data-source-page-controller="question_response_contents" href="/profiles/451515-spc-mathew-brady">SPC Mathew Brady</a> for those who live in the city with a small yard teach them the Square Foot Garden method. I have been doing this for years and I love it. You do NOT need a garden tiller or tractor just some 4'x4'x1' boxes and good soil. 120 green onions will fit into 1sqft,1 bell pepper in 1sqft and so on. There is a book with this title by Mel Bartholomew.

2014-12-01T20:51:42-05:00 2014-12-01T20:51:42-05:00 SPC Jack Hunt, JR 351882

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have been told that the cultivation of marijuana is very therapeutic. Now on the serious side I have some both equine and K9 therapy and have to say when it's totally quiet and it's you and the animal working together that a sense of peace comes over you. <br /><br />I am not certin if it just slows our minds and focuses us on something other than the norm or what but it is beneficial.

2014-12-02T16:57:30-05:00 2014-12-02T16:57:30-05:00 SGT Joni Hughes 2479157

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This is an amazing thing that you are doing, definitely productive, and we definitely need more people in Agriculture today. We have way too many that want to focus on Technology/desk jobs, albeit some may be important. We still need those that are willing to take up the Agricultural fields as well....

2017-04-07T14:38:13-04:00 2017-04-07T14:38:13-04:00 SGT Herbert Bollum 5826733

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I have only 2.2 acres with 12 alpacas and enjoy it

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