A Las Vegas homestead teaches fellow veterans to farm, can, and bake
Semper Fi Homestead, started by disabled Marine veteran and nurse Scott Rehm and Jeanalin Rehm, runs a free eight-week Veteran Homestead Boot Camp. Ten veterans are enrolled.
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Semper Fi Homestead in Las Vegas is teaching veterans how to grow food, put it in jars, and bake, and the classes are free, 8 News Now reported. Disabled Marine veteran and nurse Scott Rehm founded the homestead with Jeanalin Rehm. The Veteran Homestead Boot Camp runs eight weeks. Ten veterans are enrolled.
The lessons sit on a working homestead. The aim is practical skill: farming, canning, and baking, offered to fellow veterans at no charge. The current class is small, a first group of students rather than a seat for every veteran in the city.
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In Las Vegas, a small homestead is teaching veterans how to grow food, seal it in jars, and bake, and the classes are free. Scott Rehm, a disabled Marine veteran and a nurse, started Semper Fi Homestead with Jeanalin Rehm. Their Veteran Homestead Boot Camp lasts eight weeks. Ten veterans are in it now. The lessons happen on a working homestead, so people practice with real plants and a real kitchen. The group is small. It is a class for fellow veterans, not a claim that every veteran in the city already has a seat.
- What could you learn on a farm that you cannot learn from a video?
- Why would canning and baking belong in the same class as planting?
- Who in your town might like a free class that teaches a useful skill?
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