About me
Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden, VEBCOG, has achieved the ability to increase educational and marketing opportunities for beginning farmers and ranchers by partnering with Farmer Veterans Coalition of North Carolina and collaborating with the University of Mount Olive in Mount Olive NC, in addition to requesting the services of NC Agritourism and NC Cooperative extension. VEBCOG has a primary mission to provide transitional employment and training for disabled and socially disadvantaged veterans using an urban farm but we have continued to evolve within our program services. In the past 8 years, we expanded to successfully develop a 3-point collaborative based agricultural education programming for active duty and military veterans who had farmed or ranched under 10 years using USDA AGVET funding and developed an onsite Youth Farmers Market training underserved youth ages 13-17.