[FLPERMACULTURE] Plants needed for incarcerated youth garden program

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>MacCormick Secure's Community Service Garden Project is beginning and we
>need your help!
>
>The young men at MacCormick Secure, located in Brooktondale, N.Y. (one of
>three maximum secure facilities for youths in NYS) are about to embark on
>a gardening project.
>They are starting a vegetable and herb garden at their facility.
>The vegetables and herbs will be donated to the Brooktondale Farmer's
>Market (where they will be sold by Brooktondale teens) and to the
>Brooktondale Food Pantry.
>
>Additional vegetables will be made into MacCormick's' famous Salsa, which
>will also be donated to the Brooktondale programs.
>
>The MacCormick teens will also be creating a composting system this summer
>under Cornell Cooperative Extension Adam Michaelides' supervision, to be
>integrated with their gardening plan and will include composting food
>scraps from the facility.
>
>Anyone who has herb and vegetable plants to donate to this exciting new
>project,  please contact Marjorie Olds at mzo2 at cornell.edu or 277 2228.
>
>Thanks so much for your support of this project.

Adam Michaelides
Program Manager, Compost Education
Cornell Cooperative Extension
615 Willow Ave.
Ithaca, NY  14850
(607) 272 - 2292
acm1 at cornell.edu
http://www.cce.cornell.edu/tompkins/compost
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