With a bunch of effort, veterans successfully unloaded thousands of pounds of soil off a truck. They had to get creative to find the best way to unload the soil, using a truck to pull a pallet with the soil on top of it.
It was a team effort between Navy veteran Samba Jargu and other veteans.
“Connection with other folks who have that understanding, who see you as an individual,” Jargu said about the other veterans.
Jargu lives with mental health issues like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression that stem from serving abroad.
This weekend he and his partner Kelly Davis, who own the plant medicine collective Green Spirits Healing, hosted a pilot program retreat for veterans at VFW 10245 in Three Points.
“We had people who didn’t really know how to find some of this help,” Jargu said
This weekend the veterans built raised garden beds and learned about watering systems, soil, and seeds. Jargu wanted them to connect by doing something they might not normally do, with people like them they may never have met.