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Feature: doing well by doing good.
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VOX
- Article date:
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March 22, 2007
- Author:
- Cummings, Mary
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Hope grows at two local greenhouses
Greenhouses are upbeat places. They seem to be flooded with sunshine even on days when the sky is grey. They are fragrant, often riotously colorful and exist in a climate that admits of no harshness, no jolting changes or unpleasant extremes. And yet, for all their heady sensory stimuli, it is always a soothing experience to enter this warm, humid world where plant life thrives in a perfect, and perfectly controlled, environment.
On Long Island, two greenhouses provide a perfect, controlled environment for other delicate subjects: the developmentally disabled. For people like Sabrina Walker, who falls into that category and has a ...