Healing through Horticulture

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
High School, Upper Elementary
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
100
Year Founded: 
2008
About the Program: 

Healing through Horticulture is the garden project at the Charlie Byrd Youth Corrections Center and J. Everret Barr School. Youth have an opportunity to grow, taste, and experience gardening first hand. Many of the youth detained in the facility have never experienced any gardening.