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| Thriving on the farm |
| By kearneycourier.com- Sarah Fallin |
| Published: 01/18/2017 |
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At the age of 13, Rico Nelson of Leonardtown started selling drugs to pay the electric bill. As the second-youngest of five boys, he joined his parents in an unstable and unsuitable lifestyle for a child: his mother was an addict, his father an alcoholic. “It wasn’t something I wanted to do. … It was a way to provide,” Nelson said. But now, with a grant from the very same system that was in charge of keeping him in jail multiple times for drug-related infractions, Nelson is working full time at Farming 4 Hunger at Serenity Farm in Benedict. The Maryland Department of Corrections has allotted him a $35,000 grant to be employed there for one year. He’s now one of two full-time employees at Farming 4 Hunger. Bernie Fowler Jr., founder of Farming 4 Hunger, a nonprofit that grows fresh food for those in need, said he realized early on in the organization’s history that help was needed with harvesting, so he formed a relationship with the Department of Corrections and began having inmates at Southern Maryland Pre-Release in Charlotte Hall come to the farm to help. Read More. |
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