After a medical retirement from the Air Force, Zephrine Hanson felt broken and in need of healing. When she started farming, she found the care she put into the soil and plants was in turn nurturing her.
Hanson’s work as what she calls a “micro farmer” and her collaboration with other people of color and underserved communities in the Denver area recently earned her recognition fromprogram. She also received a $25,000 grant in the company’s Heroes to CEOs competition.
“I needed college money. I needed life experience and I needed to be on my own. The Air Force presented that experience,” Hanson said. “Of course, when you’re 18, you have no idea what you’re really signed up for.” Hanson said at the time, the military really didn’t have a way to help people to heal. “They were just like ‘You’re a broken soldier, you’re a broken airman. You have to move on.’ ”
“Our life in California just wasn’t panning out the way we wanted it to. It was a faster pace and we didn’t want to raise kids there,” Hanson said. “And knowing that we had to home-school, we wanted more space.” Hanson signed up for a multiweek course and hands-on learning through a partnership between Veterans to Farmers and the Denver Botanic Gardens, which hosts the program at its Chatfield Farms site in Littleton. She learned about planting, harvesting and tending crops.
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