Veteran Business Spotlight
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.”
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