On two Memphis farms, veterans are getting back to nature
It’s a hot, late-summer morning in the Alcy-Ball neighborhood, a symphony of cicadas humming, as U.S. Air Force veteran Steve Jones collects pale blue eggs from a chicken coop.
For the past three years, Jones has kept a flock of egg-laying hens fed, watered, clean and happy on the urban farm at 2226 Ball Road. The farm is one of two belonging to Alpha Omega Veterans Services, a nonprofit that helps veterans get housing, treatment and access to their benefits.
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Aisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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