It’s called a plant sale, but Lani-Kailua Outdoor Circle’s annual fundraiser next weekend is just the tip of the green iceberg.<\/p>\n
Sale proceeds from the club’s huge inventory of healthy plants will go directly to the Women’s Community Correctional Center to support the cultivation of hydro-ponic lettuce, herbs and vegetables for the prison kitchen.<\/p>\n
“Thirty women have been in this Learning to Grow program over the past four years,” said LKOC member Claudia Webster. “A team of nine volunteer teachers and a volunteer hydroponics consultant meet with the women six hours a week in the (prison) garden to teach various methods of backyard vegetable and plant gardening to the very receptive students at WCCC.”<\/p>\n
The inmate crew in turn puts in time five days a week to maintain the crops as they learn cooperation, self-valuing, responsibility and many more skills and lessons to help them on the outside later on. These inspired horticulturists are the same ones who grow the plants for the plant sale.<\/p>\n
The sale will be open from 8 to 11 a.m. April 13 at Kailua Elementary School. The public is invited to “buy in” to the Learning to Grow project with a little green from their wallets.<\/p>\n
For more information on the sale and the prison program, call LKOC\/WCCC liaison Margaret Brezel at 263-4040 or email her at mlbrezel@jps.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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