By Joanne Davidson
Veterans to Farmers, a nonprofit organization that Marine veteran Buck Adams launched to help other vets develop skills that would enable them to go into business for themselves, is poised to take farming to the next level.
Adams, 44, is in negotiations to purchase a 50-acre parcel in the metro area that he will turn into an “agro-park” with an 18-acre greenhouse, five acres indoors devoted to salmon aquaculture and 300 employees ā all military veterans.
The $100 million project would be the first of its kind in the nation.
“We’re past the conceptual stage,” Adams said. “We have met with funders and hope to break ground in 2016.”
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