OUR MISSION

The mission of Veterans Arts & Sustainable Technologies Group is to provide United States Armed Forces service members with informal training, support, and access to the Arts and Regenerative Agricultural Sciences.

VAST will operate a revolutionary New York Based Institute offering state of the art tools to explore the full potential of the natural world and its food and energy benefits.

The goal is to inspire current and returning veterans to start businesses or seek employment in fields that need disciplined individuals and teams. We want veterans to become leaders in air, land, and water management.

HOW WE HELP

Veterans are inherently a problem-solving group, ready for missions
worthy of their commitment. We use the arts to develop the creativity
required for utilizing sustainable and regenerative technologies in new,
unique, and efficient ways.

Veterans will engage in programs that provide information and guided
instruction on the most effective sustainable restorative farming
technologies.

The first step is to introduce Veterans to informal Green job
instruction and training through a complete educational concept created
to introduce practical, yet futuristic ideas about Food, Energy and
Learning.

Subjects and Research topics:

• 3D Printing (with a focus on sustainable materials as the medium)
• Aquaponics – building and maintaining a completely self-contained
  water-based food growth system composed of vegetables and edible fish.
• Biofuel – growth of seaweed/algae and extraction, conversion process, and techniques.
• Entomophagy – raising of insects for food consumption as an alternative protein source.
• Drones –used for dynamic experiments, research (also to integrate with smart helmet instruction) and maintenance of grounds.
• Water Restoration – investigations into purification and filtering methods (fresh & sea water)
• Soil Remediation – building a healthy bacteriological community to enrich our lands.

“Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out
of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the
lives of men”.

Franklin D. Roosevelt