Hampden Farms

21/10/2022

🙋🏾‍♀️For me and anyone else who needs it…
🗣November 2015 I started my public speaking career, sharing my family's experiences as a veteran managing my mental health challenges while also raising the children on the autism spectrum and parents figuring it out as we go along.
😵‍💫The plan was to stay in California but then everything just fell apart with our children's education. In January of 2016, our son's arm was broken at school while he was unsupervised during his paraeducators lunch. We were threatened with truancy charges for challenging the school's ability to safely educate our children. It was the final straw in a long list of problems that we had with our children's education, mental and physical and safety.

❤️‍🩹By May 2016 we moved to Colorado and I love the life we have here. But… initially my heart was broken and I didn't understand that success and happiness don't have to be measured against old/obsolete life goals. I could still be happy even if things didn't turn out as I imagined.

⭐️This last year has reinforced the realization that expectations are my downfall. Had we stayed in California like I wanted I would have missed out on the life I am loving right now! Thank you to all our Colorado communities who have been the vessel for healing for our entire family.
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Pic Id : Zephrine speaking at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center at Battle Tested Veterans first event. She is standing on stage talking to the audience. Behind her is a slide with the word Neurodiversity and a family picture.
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20/08/2022

🎉Thank you for playing what did we grow?

🌟For those of you who said pumpkin you are right.

🎃 Second photo is the mystery plant it started as!

16/08/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 Shoutout to our community of farmers hosting events for the whole family this week!

⭐️ FrontLine Farming Kaizen Food Rescue Rebel Marketplace Environmental Learning for Kids Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace Wild Wicks Farm have several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what all of our friends have in store!

11/08/2022

❓Thanks for playing... What's eating me?

🏆 If you said Japanese Beetles...you are correct.

🔄 They have a 35-45 day life cycle, so they should be gone soon.

💡 We pick them off by hand and drop them into soapy water, so they don't attract their friends. What do you do?

09/08/2022

🥰The book I am LOVING right now is… Feeding The Soul (because it’s my business)
By Tabitha Brown

🫶🏾 Her voice and vibe are a feast/meal for my whole soul. I adore her, we are friends…that haven't met yet.

🪫In addition to a standing appointment with my therapist I love books that help me align to the best version of myself. After several years in therapy and various wellness and healing practices I realize that when I am depressed, anxious and navigating suicidal thoughts…something or things are very off in a my life and I am ignoring the signs. It’s my phone's battery at 20%. It's me still downloading apps and scrolling through social media even though my phone is clearly begging to be left alone and recharged.

🤩 I knew I was going to be an entrepreneur in the 2nd grade thanks to Black Enterprise magazine. What I didn't know is it would take several breakdowns, lessons, attempts and pivots to get here. I would be in my forties, farming, creating content, homeschooling, healing myself and family.

😵‍💫 My soul was dehydrated, malnourished and tired, when I started listening to Feeding the Soul.

🥰 Thank you Tab for inspiring us all to allow our way to joy, love and freedom.

🧘🏾‍♀️ Take three deep breaths

💦 Stay hydrated and nourished

🫶🏾 Be well Dear Hearts

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“Just because it hasn't happened yet does not mean it’s not going to happen.”
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“You will have your fair share of breakdowns. It's 100 percent okay. Just don't live there.”
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“Nurture the dream”

09/08/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 Shoutout to our community of farmers hosting events for the whole family this week!

⭐️ FrontLine Farming Kaizen Food Rescue Rebel Marketplace Environmental Learning for Kids Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace Wild Wicks Farm City Park Farmers Market have several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what all of our friends have in store!

04/08/2022

🌱 What pest is eating my leaves?

Leave your answers in the comments!

02/08/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 Shoutout to our community of farmers hosting events for the whole family this week!

⭐️ FrontLine Farming Kaizen Food Rescue Rebel Marketplace Environmental Learning for Kids Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace have several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what all of our friends have in store! https://www.hampdenfarms.com/events

28/07/2022

🐜 Welcome to a series we are calling PESTS!

🍃 As the farming season continues, the bugs and pests are invading farms and gardens everywhere.

💡Here are 3 helpful tips on how to manage pests!

🐞 Stay tuned to see some of the invaders in our farm and more tips on how to keep them away.

26/07/2022

🌱What am I?

💡Leave your guesses in the comments below!

25/07/2022

Update: The WFAN Panel has been moved to tomorrow, July 26th and we are excited to have you! Register using this link: https://wfan.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?id=1336&reset=1

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 Shoutout to our community of farmers hosting events for the whole family this week!

⭐️ FrontLine Farming Kaizen Food Rescue Rebel Marketplace Environmental Learning for Kids Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace East Denver Food Hub several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what all of our friends have in store!

21/07/2022

My first calendula of the season 🫶🏾👩🏾‍🌾💛🌼✨ Image Id: bright orangey yellow calendula flower sticks out of raised bed surrounded by brown dirt and more flowers that I have yet to bloom.

12/07/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 Shoutout to our community of farmers hosting events for the whole family this week!

⭐️ FrontLine Farming Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace Environmental Learning for Kids Rebel Marketplace have several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what our friends in the community have in store!

09/07/2022

☀️ Lavender harvesting season is close.

💡 Here are some helpful tips for harvesting lavender.

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08/07/2022

🌱Three years worth of growth compared to a couple months of growth.

🪷 Be kind, patient and gracious with yourself as you bloom.
🧘🏾‍♀️Take three deep breaths

🥰 Be well Dear Hearts

Pic Id: Backyard farm during the early moring hours. Three mature lavender plants, three seedling lavender planted in raised beds. The sun is rising behind trees and a beige shed.
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05/07/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 FrontLine Farming is a food and farmers advocacy group focusing on food growing, education, sovereignty and justice.

⭐️ Frontline Farming has several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what Frontline Farming has in store!

01/07/2022

👨‍🌾 Join our friends at Rebels in the garden to pick up some affordable produce from local farmers at Rebel Marketplace

🌻 They're also hosting their first Kidz Korner of the summer where they will be building bird feeders and bird houses!

✅Follow them to stay updated on their future events

28/06/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 FrontLine Farming is a food and farmers advocacy group focusing on food growing, education, sovereignty and justice.

⭐️ Frontline Farming has several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out our website for more information on these events and see what Frontline Farming has in store!

14/06/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 and are BIPOC Women led food and farmers advocacy groups focusing on food growing, education, sovereignty and justice.

⭐️ Frontline Farming has several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out their website for more information on how you can support *link in bio*

14/06/2022

👩🏾‍🌾 The lavender is budding

🤷🏾‍♀️ Every season I have a plan and every season I have to pivot

🌱 Focus on what's working

🧘🏾‍♀️ Three deep breaths, Dear Hearts

Pic Id : Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield Farms lavender field. Blue sky with rows of budding lavender plants, with a teenager in a sun hat weeding.
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07/06/2022

🌱 The 2022 garden and farm season is here!

🗣 We are excited to amplify our community of farmers, gardeners, herbalists, makers, land cultivators and the like.

👩🏾‍🌾 is a food and farmers advocacy group focusing on food growing, education, sovereignty and justice.

⭐️ Frontline Farming has several opportunities for community wellness and wealth building this week and throughout the season.

🤩 Please check out their website for more information on how you can support *link in bio*

05/06/2022

Gratitude for all that farming had given me 🤩✨ with
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Gardens are often the most accessible places for children to learn about nature’s beauty, interconnections, power, fragility, and solace. 💚

We give gratitude to our unspoken bond with the soil, Mother Earth and our partners for making this loving program accessible for our community. 💫

Shout out to Sarah Hamid and her team for making us a lovely vegetarian meal. ❤️

(Heffernan, M. (1994). The Children’s Garden Project at River Farm. Children’s Environments. 11(3): 221-231.

03/06/2022

YOUTH CLASS THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 4‼️
This Saturday from 10 am-11:30 am, we have another class in our Youth Summer Workshop Series at Celebration Community Farm (1650 S Birch St., Denver, CO 80222)!!

💚 FrontLine Farminge is partnering with Kaizen Food Rescue and Healthy Food for Denver to teach local youth about the basics of farming and growing food in a community garden. This second workshop in our Youth Education series will focus on the life cycles of a plant and how to plant and care for seedlings! There will even be a fun painting activity!💚

Lunch will be provided for the participants and their families. Parents and guardians will also be able to stay and participate in a nutrition workshop provided by our community leaders and VeggieRX participants, Minelly Martinez and Alan Gonzalez.

To register, please visit this link: https://www.frontlinefarming.org/.../community-youth...
Image ID 1: Josh, our Education Programs Manager, bends down beside a small child to pose for a photo. Josh wears a blue long-sleeve FrontLine Farming shirt and a straw sunhat. The child beside him wears an open, red zip-up hoodie and a blue shirt with a FrontLine seed sticker placed upside down on the shirt. Both smile warmly at the camera.
Image ID 2: The class flyer with the above information on a tan background with a graphic of a yellow seed and a scannable QR code for the class
Image ID 3: The same flyer translated into Spanish

31/05/2022

🤷🏾‍♀️ Thanks to life, LIFE-ING and Colorado’s weather we are behind in our planting schedule.

🙌🏾 Shout-out to my husband and children for making this season happen.

🤩 Yay for family businesses!

🌱 Stay tuned to see how this season unfolds.

Pic descprtion: overgrown backyard with 5 beds. European American male with three African European American youth cleaning up backyard farm.
Lavender growing. Hampden Farms logo.
Cleaned up backyard beds. African-American woman standing in front of five farm beds.
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15/05/2022

I thought this lavender was dead, but look at her 🌱🤩
Happy Sunday Dear Hearts
Go outside. Take 3 deep breaths.
Release what no longer serves you🦋✨✨✨
Receive your magic 🧜🏿‍♀️✨✨✨

13/05/2022

💎I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
Eartha Kitt

🥴My schedule has been very dynamic for ALL the right reasons. Instead of diamonds and gold -my spouse and children prepared our backyard farm project, without my micromanagement. It turns out my children don't mind working…. it was all my commentary.

🥰I appreciate that my family prepped the beds for me. I had no expectations of how they would do things. This morning I meditated and walked barefooted in my backyard, soaking up every bit of the good feelings. The images do not do this morning's magic justice yet I tried.

🧘🏾‍♀️Go outside and talk 3 deep breaths Dear Heats

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31/12/2021

I am wishing all of us s Happy New Year🎊
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I am super appreciative of farming and the people and places it connects me to. But sometimes my heart gets so heavy from all the challenges in the world that I forget to celebrate the wins and the small things that make it all worth it.
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No matter what 2022 has in store for us make sure you celebrate your wins, remember your why and appreciate your own happiness.
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See you tomorrow Dear Hearts🥰

28/11/2021

I have so much appreciation for the opportunity to talk about family, mental health, business and farming with Daymond John thanks to Chase.
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I am excited to see how our next steps unfold. I am forever grateful for all of the support I received, but especially thankful for my Colorado communities. I continue to be amazed and inspired by the diverse collective of people I call friends.
Be well, Dear Hearts 💖



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All right, welcome everybody. My name is Daymond John and I am here today with the Zephrine Hanson of Hampden Farms. And speaking to her about Hampden Farms, what first drew me and my attention to it is her amazing work, first of all, she served this country and she is a veteran and thank you for yo...

27/11/2021

I am so grateful for the amazing women at .la.flower thank you for every word your plant in my soul ✨Check out ✨ for local gifts
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24/11/2021

I’m it is just a bruise and not a break. She fell off the last rung of her bunk bed ladder onto her bedroom floor covered in built and unbuilt legos. The impact of the fall sounded terrifying and understandably she was upset and in pain. I didn’t think it was broken...but because of her pain tolerance we had to be sure with an x-ray.
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Annoyed by life, life-ing (when I have plans🤦🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️)I started to “chain” all the intense feelings of special needs parenting, getting ready for the holidays,end of year business responsibility and ALL the things.
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But the truth is I am thankful that our pediatrician and their autism specialist are great and are attentive to the diverse needs of our family. I am thankful that I have a support system of family and friends who hold space helping me manage my mental health. Her dad took her to the doc, her siblings managed themselves and Aunt Melissa (my Air Force sister of over 20 years) and I texted back and forth until we received the break free x-ray result.
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Be well and thankful dear hearts