Read about an upstate-downstate grassroots alliance seeking to improve communities urban and rural communities… through dairy agriculture.

Tanisia Morris, “Greene Hill Food Co-op Sells Prison Reform,” The Local: Fort Green / Clinton Hill. February, 11, 2013.
http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/greene-hill-food-co-op-sells-prison-reform/?smid=pl-share

The Greene Hill Food Co-op on Putnam Avenue is selling milk, creams and yogurts that are not only healthy to eat, but help promote the message of Milk Not Jails, a grassroots prison reform organization.

“If rural New York’s economic survival depends on my habits, I’d rather drink their milk than go to their prison.”

http://milknotjails.wordpress.com/

Jessica Naudziunas, “Milk Not Jails Makes Partners Out Of Farmers And Ex-Cons,” The Salt. NPR. April 04, 2012
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/04/150014674/milk-not-jails-makes-partners-out-of-farmers-and-ex-cons

Photo comes from “Milk Not Jails Makes Partners Out Of Farmers And Ex-Cons.”