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| Prison inmates growing skills with New Mexico State University gardening program |
| By demingheadlight.com- Carlos Andres Lopez |
| Published: 09/07/2018 |
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Carleous McDaniel shifted the overflowing foliage on top of a raised garden bed made of refabricated wood pallets to get a better a look at the patch of melons growing underneath. He lowered his head slightly, inspected a fading green tendril on a miniature yellow watermelon about the size of a coconut, and instantly knew the fruit wasn’t ready to be picked. “When it starts browning like this,” he said in July while pointing to the tip of the discoloring vine, “and it gets brown all the way down, then the melon is ready.” McDaniel admits he didn’t always know how to spot a ripe melon. Nor did he have a green thumb for most his life, he said. But all that changed in the spring of 2017, when he started to study horticulture and began to grow fruits and vegetables while serving time at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility, a state prison in Doña Ana County. Read More. |
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