He’s Flipping A Prison Into A Farm: Meet Noran Sanford

NPR host Frank Stasio talks with Noran Sanford about how his own turbulent childhood in Laurinburg led to his youth-led approach to change and how he would like to see hundreds of prisons across the country “flipped” to become spaces for second chances (September 24, 2018).

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Photo credit: Lewis Wallace

Homes and gardens: The best thing to ever happen to a prison

Scalawag Magazine, (April, 5 2018)

Growing Change honored for work

GrowingChange awarded the Shark Bait Challenge at the National Brownfields Training Conference in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Laurinburg Exchange, (December 29, 2017)

Named 2017 Rural Leader of the Year

NC Rural Center, (December 14, 2017)

Noran Sanford turns youthful lives around on old prison grounds

The News & Observer, (March, 11 2017)

Converted Cellblocks

GrowingChange featured in an article on prison reuse.

NYC’s The Marshall Project, (January 29, 2015)
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Shoulder to Shoulder: How North Carolina teens are converting a former jail into a working farm

Sierra, Sierra Club National Magazine (October 6, 2014)

Teens Help Turn Abandoned North Carolina Prisons Into Farms

National Public Radio’s, UNC CH broadcasting’ The State of Things (November 18, 2014)