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| Cotton in the Mississippi Delta. Photo: Natalie Maynor, Flickr |
A national organization devoted to combating hunger has found a way to wring good works from the South's most notorious prison farms.
The Mississippi office of the Society of St. Andrew, which identifies itself as "America's premier food salvage ministry," last month joined with the Mississippi Food Network to start collecting surplus produce from the Mississippi State Penitentiary -- commonly known as Parchman Farm -- and distributing it to 350 food pantries across the state.
"It's a win-win situation," program coordinator Jackie Usey reports. The program has already collected 40,000 pounds of squash from Parchman's fields.
