Women Inmates Clone Breadfruit

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Warden Mark Patterson, Honolulu Garden Club representatives and Dr. Diane Ragone with the Breadfruit Institute will be at the Community Correctional Center in Kailua a.m. 9 a.m. Tuesday (Feb. 14).

Why? Inmates at WCCC have grown cloned breadfruit (ulu) trees.

Press release:

The goal of the Breadfruit Institute program is to produce a viable food source to feed hungry people in tropical regions like Hawaii and around the world. The trees started as 6-inch tall plants and are now over 7 feet tall and thriving under inmate care.

Ragone and the institute will be speaking to the newer inmates about the role they will play in caring for ulu. 

Photo courtesy wallygrom.

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