Dog Tag Bakery marks 10 years of veteran entrepreneurship program [Video]

Dog Tag Bakery, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, is more than just a place for coffee. It also serves as an entrepreneurship program for veterans with service-connected disabilities. Describing itself as a “living business school,” Dog Tag Bakery is designed to support veterans dealing with both visible and invisible wounds. 

The organization’s mission is to help veterans transition back to civilian life after their military service. The five-month fellowship program offers veterans, spouses, and caregivers the chance to take courses in business, storytelling, mindfulness and more. Fellows receive a stipend and are required to attend four days per week.

Healing through farming

Peter Scott, a former Army counterintelligence agent who served in Afghanistan, is one of the many veterans whose life was changed by Dog Tag. 

Scott enlisted in the Army in 1999. He was stationed in …