A South Carolina women’s prison has become the first correctional facility in the country to grow its own food using a vertical farm.
In addition to supplying the women’s prison with fresh produce, the program housed within Camille Graham is aimed at teaching participants skills useful in the agricultural field.
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Seven shipping containers sit outside a South Carolina women’s prison. Inside four, amid the lights and fans, grow stacked ...
Inside Camille Graham Correctional in Columbia, women are learning to farm in a high-tech, indoor setting — a program leaders say is producing tens of thousands ...
The four-container farm operation will produce approximately 48,000 pounds of fresh leafy greens annually to service the prison's cafeteria and neighboring institutions.
The SCDC is set to launch the first vertical farm inside a U.S. prison at the Camille Graham women’s facility in Columbia.
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