GREEN BAY (WLUK) — It’s not unusual to see a community garden in Northeast Wisconsin. But some food being grown, harvested and donated to a local food pantry is coming from an unlikely source.
Lettuce, tomatoes, peppers and herbs — those are just some of the plants blooming in a community garden at the Brown County Jail.
According to Rachel Quintas, Brown County’s Urban Agriculture and Community Garden coordinator, “We started this program with the Green Bay Packers Give Back, so they funded the beds and the initial supplies, and the whole intention is to provide the participants with education, some employable skills, some socialization and then the therapeutic benefits of gardening.”…