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Speaker 1: Mental hospitals probably aren't most people's first pick for a

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Speaker 1: place to spend a weekend afternoon.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people have misconceptions about what a mental

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Speaker 2: health facility is like and what people with mental health

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Speaker 2: issues are like. They're no different than anybody else.

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Speaker 1: That's Glenda Hazard with the Master Department of Mental Health.

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Speaker 1: The staff here is showing me the elaborate greenhouse on

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Speaker 1: the Taunton State Hospital grounds, which is open to the

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Speaker 1: public and getting increasingly popular. Patients from the hospital work

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Speaker 1: here to get work, experience and a little money.

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Speaker 3: Rachel Klein is the rehab director.

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Speaker 4: They were surprised to see how big of a greenhouse

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Speaker 4: we have for being a therapeutic program.

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Speaker 1: They've now started to hold farmers markets where the public

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Speaker 1: can come and mingle with the patients as they buy

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Speaker 1: food and plants.

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Speaker 4: The farmer's market was just a way to generate more attention.

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Speaker 3: Kyle Shaffle WBS Boston Soon's Radio