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OCTOBER SPOTLIGHT – USMC Lt Col Leigh Sumner of North Carolina recently took delivery of a custom trailer for her “Bee Battalions” Pollinator Business.

After a months-long wait to construct her unique, custom trailer, adapted to accommodate combat injuries, USMC LtCol Leigh Sumner is populating her hives and ordering her “Bee Battalions” to work. Her new business will transport bees to commercial farms to pollinate crops.

Work Vessels for Vets partnered with Semper Fi & America’s Fund to contract for a $26,000 prototype apiary trailer to accommodate Leigh’s leg injuries to ease her access to work with her beehives and transport the pollinators to local farms.

The trailer can support 10 hives which are accessible for Leigh to load and unload at local farms.

Leigh is eager to get going and continues her legacy of service by mentoring new beekeepers, and continuing her continuing education in subjects such as “Queen Rearing”

Writes Leigh to both WVFV and Semper Fi & America’s Fund, “Thank you for your support and encouragement for my business plan and as I grow Sumner Farm! I’m sincerely grateful to you all – SF&AF & WVFV for your support, AZ Hives North America for your excellent Adaptive product, and SC Trailers for building my Prototype Trailer.”

Sumner Farm Bee Battalion Trailer

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Army SSG Steve Rossler
Fort Hood, TX

“Kristen, Paisley, Julianne, and I cannot express how grateful we are to both organizations [ WVFV and Semper FI] for doing this for us. Sitting on top of a mountain in Wardak Afghanistan, I never would’ve imagined that my duty to America would ever be rewarded like this.”

Army SGT GRAYSON REED

“I wanted to say thanks for the camera…I have toured with a band as their photographer, shot for a museum’s fine art gallery, and have multiple awards for my first documentary. I love the process and I am the happiest I have been. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

M “Joey” JIMENEZ, US Army

“I accomplished more today than I have in a long time. The hand tools were amazing(game changers), and the machinery is effortless. Thank you, Work Vessels for Vets!”

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