It may lack the entertaining drama of the NetFlix hit, "Orange is the New Black," but inmates at a Virginia detention center are growing crops using hyroponic systems.
The website www.your4state.com reports that the hydroponic system was designed by one of the facility's inmmates. "You have [to worry about] your nutrient level and pH balance,” said Michael Ganoe, the inmate who designed the hydroponic system. “With this you actually produce much quicker than a garden. You get a crop about every three to four weeks."
At the detention center all the produce grown in the hydroponic greenhouse and garden are picked, brought to the kitchen, and cooked for the entire jail. Ninety percent of the materials needed for the growing were donated by the Shenandoah Area Council Boy Scouts Chapter.
To read the full story, at www.your4state.com, click here.
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