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| Agriculture drying up in N.H. corrections programs |
| By concordmonitor.com- Elodie Reed |
| Published: 07/18/2016 |
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Behind the metal fences and curled razor wire surrounding the yard, New Hampshire state prison for women inmate Nicole Belonga gently tended to her leafy pumpkin patch. On a recent morning when temperatures were already in the 80s by 9:30, Belonga weeded and tended to the beds with fellow inmate Susan McLaughlin. They each lamented the damage from the state’s relative drought and from invading voles – as McLaughlin removed flowers from their mustard green plants, she exclaimed, “Oh my god, it’s awful!” The women spend three mornings a week preserving their small garden, the last remaining vestige of agriculture within the Department of Corrections after the state’s prison farm closed last year. To find any other inmates working in vegetable beds – or milking cows for that matter – one has to drive about two hours north to North Haverill. The Grafton County Farm is the last remaining county farm in the state. Read More. |
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