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Prison gardens donate to state food banks

PRE News & Ideas | By George Olsen
Published October 27, 2015 at 12:44 PM EDT

INTRO – Gardens at state prisons are helping to fill food bank shelves. George Olsen has more.

A press release from the state Department of Public Safety says seven prisons donated approximately 16,250 pounds of fresh produce to local food banks. The donation was a project between Public Safety and the national non-profit Harvest Now which is also working with prison systems in several other states. Inmates at the seven prisons started vegetable gardens last spring and partnered with local hunger organizations to donate their crop. Among donations was 250 pounds of produce grown at Pamlico Correctional Institute in Bayboro sent to Meals on Wheels.. A few of the prisons are now working on winter gardens with several more prisons planning to join the effort in the spring. I’m George Olsen.
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George Olsen
George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.
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