Our programs

Hands-on healing, side by side

Our farm-based programs support veterans through hands-on healing, meaningful connection, and a wide range of therapeutic experiences.

Veterans and volunteers holding an American flag together outdoors at the farm

Agritherapy

Three volunteer groups manage our produce and flower gardens, beehives, and medicinal plants. The healing comes from working together in the soil.

Garden Group

We grow produce and flower bouquets that are donated to veterans and caregivers at the Charles George VA Medical Center, Safelight Women's Shelter, IAM Food Pantry, the Rescue Mission of Hendersonville, the Storehouse, and the Veterans Restoration Quarters, a shelter for veterans experiencing homelessness in Asheville. Because the healing comes from the process of working together in the soil, everything we grow is a byproduct to be shared with our veteran community.

Beekeeping Squad

Veteran beekeeping is more than just harvesting honey. It's a powerful form of healing and connection. Working with bees teaches patience, focus, and calm, offering veterans a peaceful, purposeful activity that supports both mental health and the environment. From building hives to tending colonies, veterans gain hands-on skills while helping local ecosystems. Plus, the honey's pretty sweet too!

Medicinal Herb Squad

The Medicinal Herb Squad grows and crafts more than 70 healing plants into teas, tinctures, salves, and balms, made specifically for our veteran community. For many veterans, the top challenges are sleep, anxiety, and inflammation. The goal of our plant medicine program is to offer natural, plant-based relief instead of just another pill.

70,000+ lbs of producegrown and donated to our veteran community to date, plus hundreds of bouquets
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A volunteer leading a group through the farm's garden beds Crates of freshly harvested tomatoes and peppers Beekeepers in protective suits tending hives at the farm
Veterans, family members, and volunteers working with clay around a big table in the farm's sunlit pottery studio

Clay & Camaraderie

With resident potter Sophia Lauterbach

Clay & Camaraderie is our pottery program for active-duty service members, veterans, their families, and VHF volunteers. It combines structured creative expression with the calm, hands-on focus of working with clay, and it builds friendships around the studio table.

4 weeks · BeginnerHand-building workshopLearn clay basics, slab building, texture, underglazes, and sgraffito, then glaze your pieces after they're fired in our kiln.
Past studentsOpen studioCome back to work on your own projects, with Sophia on hand to help.
Throughout the yearSeasonal workshopsSpecial projects like our two-part holiday ornament workshop.

Workshops

Every workshop we offer is designed to heal, whether it's an actual therapy or a therapeutic, hands-on experience.

Therapies

  • Equine
  • Canine
  • Art
  • Music
  • Neurofeedback

Therapeutic experiences

  • Blacksmithing
  • Canning
  • Herbal medicine
  • Mushroom growing
  • Jam making
  • Pottery
  • And many more

Suicide prevention training: we also offer life-saving suicide prevention classes, open to everyone in Western North Carolina.

85workshops last year
700+participants
95%approval rating
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Graduates holding certificates from an Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) class at the farm Veterans gathered around tables during an indoor workshop Volunteers planting in rows of the farm field
Veterans smiling together in the stands at a hockey game outing Two veterans holding up a trout on a fly fishing trip Motorcycles parked on the lawn during a farm event

Events

From powerful moments of remembrance to fun-filled outings, our events connect veterans with support, community, and joy.

  • Annual Veterans Resource Fair40+ service organizations, live music, and food trucks.
  • Traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall & 9/11 MemorialHosted at the farm, with 3,856 attendees over four days.
  • AdventuresFly fishing, hiking, kayaking, baseball, and hockey games.
  • Free vet clinicsCare for veterans' dogs.

We're all about bringing veterans into the community, and making them feel seen, supported, and celebrated.

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Want to experience one of our programs firsthand?

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