We made the cover!
Check out the current issue of Edible Manhattan to read the featured article about our GreenHouse program on Rikers Island written by Carrington Morris and photographed by Lindsay Morris.
Our very own Hilda Krus, Director of GreenHouse and Horticultural Therapy Programs is quoted explaining the uniqueness of our program on Rikers:
“A lot of the state facilities have horticulture, but it’s not necessarily therapeutic,” says Hort therapist Hilda Krus in reference to other correctional institutions nationwide. “It might be a vocational program, or it might be ground maintenance.” She’s been director of the GreenHouse program since 2008 and speaks with an exceptional combination of gentleness and strength in her German-accented intonations. “Those three elements our curriculum has—hands-on vocational training, indoor and outdoor classroom education and horticultural therapy—that combination is relatively rare.”
Read the full article here.