BY MEREDITH GOAD
When Jerry and Emily Ireland got married, Emilyās parents decided to give them 80 acres of land that has been in the family for generations.
Jerry Ireland, a 39-year-old Army veteran, decided to farm the land, even though he had no experience. He started watching YouTube videos and asking other farmers for help. In the 3Ā½ years since, Ireland has tapped 2,000 maple trees, grown plots of vegetables, raised chickens, grass-fed cattle and grain-free pigs, and bottled honey from his beehives.
He is now building a new farm store named after his wifeās grandfather, who was a well-known dairy farmer in the area. Ireland Hill Farms has given the Ireland family a good living, but it has given Jerry Ireland himself so much more.
It has given him a sense of pride that he hasnāt felt since he was in the military, working at the Pentagon and on support missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. It has given him an 
alternative to the 30 medications he once took to deal with post-traumatic stress and other pain ā but which left him in a mental fog ā and the street drugs that helped him cope but almost killed him.
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