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| Prison gardeners growing for neighbors |
| By marionstar.com |
| Published: 09/21/2009 |
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MARION — Thousands of pounds of fresh vegetables are donated to area organizations that make meals for battered women, the elderly and disabled and the homeless. The veggies are grown by unlikely gardeners - prisoners at North Central Correctional Institution. The horticulture and turf management program coordinator, Kris Guthrie, loads up a van with the fresh goods, including green beans, watermelons, sweet corn, zucchini, onions and squash, each Monday during the growing season and delivers them to organizations that need them. Inmates harvest them the first day of the work week so Guthrie can get going. Usually, they're never sure where the fruits of their labor end up or who they help out. Weeks of work of planning, planting, tending and repeating the process allow those most in need in the community to have extra nutritional, special touches to their daily meals. Charity organizers say none of it goes to waste. Inmates in the horticulture program got to hear firsthand recently how cooks used their vegetables and what they mean to the people who eat them. Growers and users converged at the Community Service Garden Appreciation Day. A few dozen inmates attended, gave charity organizers tours of the greenhouse and gardens and shared their stories. Read More. |
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