Nonprofit Harvest Now donates the seeds to each prison with an understanding that the produce will be donated to local food banks.
SHELTON, Wash. —
A program within Washington’s Department of Corrections (DOC) is not only teaching incarcerated people useful skills, but also benefiting the surrounding community. Each year, the impact is growing.
The DOC taps into resources from nonprofit Harvest Now, which donates up to $500 worth of seeds to prisons with an agreement that 75% of produce grown will be donated to local foodbanks.
Benri Deanon has been overseeing the gardening program at Shelton’s prison for about 10 years now and said
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