Renewal Farm plants seeds of hope in recovering addicts.

A 2-acre farm in New York is home to rows of organic vegetables and several greenhouses. It is also home to two dozen recovering addicts and alcoholics from New York City. Their days are split between tending the farm and spending time at the on-site rehabilitation center where they sleep.

“The men’s lives are shot through with such contrasts. They are urban, transplanted to the country. They have dark pasts, but they spend their days in bucolic surroundings. They come from the gritty streets, but they grow trendy produce, often for rarefied palates. In this patchwork existence, they do have one constant thread: the knowledge that they are teetering on the brink.”

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