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Nonprofit flips abandoned prison into sustainable farm with the help of at-risk youth and jobless veterans

from Good News Network

Nonprofit flips abandoned prison into sustainable farm with the help of at-risk youth and jobless veterans Good News Network On the grounds of an abandoned and decommissioned prison in North Carolina, vegetables are being tended by hands that, if not for the opportunity to learn the world’s oldest occupation, might have ended up in a real prison with nowhere to go but down. But Growing Change is an organization that believes the best solution to a problem is one that strikes at the root, not at the stem — and they have been tilling that soil since 2011. READ MORE

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