A U.S. Army combat veteran reports on the therapeutic nature of returning to the land, and a business built on urban farming. After 20 years of travails and a 10-year-long war, literature’s most celebrated veteran, Odysseus, finally returns to his homeland to find he does not recognize it—or himself—at all. As he sets foot upon home soil, noble Odysseus “awoke from his sleep, having been away so long that he did not know his fatherland again”. Unrecognizable to his wife, his fellow countrymen, and his own people, he asks: “What are the people whose land I have come to this time?” … Continue reading Swords to Plowshares: Urban Farming for the New Warrior