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Clubhouse members: Garden does us good

Members of the Clubhouse of Suffolk, on the

Photo credit: Heather Walsh | Members of the Clubhouse of Suffolk, on the left, Edwin Albrecht, age 58 from Bayport, and Bill Kelly, age 56 from Sayville, work together to get the garden ready for planting in Ronkonkoma. (Apr. 7, 2012)

Sprouts are just starting to pop at Clubhouse of Suffolk's chemical-free garden, but Bill Kelly, Ed Albrecht and Ray Flannagan have been digging in for weeks on what they expect to be a bumper crop.

"It's been a good, early start," said Kelly, a member and a peer specialist at Clubhouse, who has led the garden activities at the psychiatric rehabilitation center in Ronkonkoma since the garden's...

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