Participants will receive hands on experience establishing and maintaining healthy hives.Farm Tours: Service members and veterans will participate in a 15-week farm and supporting organization tour schedule. Modeled after the University of Montana's Master Beekeeping program, service members and veterans will work through an accelerated tri-level course with instruction in the basics of keeping honey bees, bee biology and anatomy, colony management, honey harvesting, and several other topics. Twelve members of the SAVE board are military veterans - each of whom have played an integral part in the conceptual development and implementation of the SAVE mission.The following SAVE programs would be supported by this grant:Bee Keeping: A niche agricultural endeavor, beekeeping is critical to the nation's food supply and commercial operators are in need of managers and those who might succeed them.

And third, to determine whether the project could become a self-sustaining program. Second, to measure the level of interest in the agricultural niche.

First, to assist those with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and brain disorders with the therapeutic effects of the endeavor.

Members and therapists from the Battalion suggested beginning with a beekeeping training program. Non Technical Summary The concept of the SAVE program and ultimately the long-term vision was developed in direct response to a request from Fort Riley's Warrior Transition Battalion's occupational therapists.

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