{"id":4390,"date":"2019-06-04T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/?p=4390"},"modified":"2019-06-04T13:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T17:53:08","slug":"maine-agrability-helps-military-vets-continue-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/2019\/06\/04\/maine-agrability-helps-military-vets-continue-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine AgrAbility Helps Military Vets Continue Farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lancaster Farming<\/em> reported on Holly Pickens, U.S. Army veteran, owner of Wabi-Sabi Farm in Whiting, and a client of Maine\u2019s AgrAbility veterans program for farmers experiencing disability issues related to their military service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a veteran of the Army and I have some PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) from trauma nursing,\u201d said Pickens. \u201cI find farming is so therapeutic and I know a lot of other veterans who are doing the same thing because it gives you that quiet purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anne Devin, coordinator of the veteran division of AgrAbility, said of Pickens and her partner Shelley Hart, \u201cAgrAbility only had to link them up with a business mentor, and they took off running, putting together a business plan and securing funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancasterfarming.com\/news\/northern_edition\/maine-agrability-helps-military-vets-continue-farming\/article_59f7ec96-a61c-5a90-be8b-cc451d2aab56.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more in <em>Lancaster Farming<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lancaster Farming reported on Holly Pickens, U.S. Army veteran, owner of Wabi-Sabi Farm in Whiting, and a client of Maine\u2019s AgrAbility veterans program for farmers experiencing disability issues related to their military service. \u201cI\u2019m a veteran of the Army and I have some PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) from trauma nursing,\u201d said Pickens. \u201cI find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"5","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":5,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/author\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"News about AgrAbility","parent":0,"count":258,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":258,"category_description":"News about AgrAbility","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4390\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/agrability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}