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Gardener Scott Koepke grows hope in Iowa prisons and youth center
Scott Koepke leads Handcuffs to Hand Plows garden programs at the Iowa Medical and Classification Center in Coralville and Linn County Juvenile Detention Center. The programs teach life skills, nutrition, and responsibility, with inmates and youths tending five acres, producing tens of thousands of pounds of food annually, and donating surplus to food pantries.
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Koepke
Dawn Schott
Linn County Juvenile Detention Center
Scott
Schott
Coralville
Iowa City
Jim McKinney
Iowa Medical and Classification Center
McKinney
Scott Koepke
Johnson County
Kirkwood Community College
Job Club
North Liberty Food Pantry
Mike Fleming
Cord Overton
Iowa Department of Corrections
Keith Noe
New York
Ohio
San Francisco
Psychology Today
National Public Radio
Washington Post
Rikers Island
New York City
University of Iowa Colleges of Public Health, Social Work and Education
Country Gardens
Better Homes & Gardens
Stephen Mally
the Gazette
Linn County
Cedar Rapids