A detention center garden celebrates its 10th harvest for food bank.
THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — After an arrest for drugs and assault, a Thurston County juvenile court judge sentenced 16-year-old Alyssa Ahl to garden duty.
“I was like, this is going to be so dumb, spending the day in the garden,” said Ahl. “And then I kind of fell in love with the place.”
Ahl, currently on probation, serves as foreman for the county’s Seeds of Change Give Back Garden behind the county’s juvenile detention facility.
The rehabilitation program, now in its 10th summer, allows what the court considers “low-risk” juvenile offenders
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