For hours Monday, greenhouses at the Providence Center in Arnold were abuzz with the work necessary to start off the latest order of plants: 75,000 plugs of wetlands grasses, Spartina patens and Spartina alterniflora.
All told, that's 1,520 trays of grasses - all bound for the Poplar Island environmental-restoration site in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay.
It's a record order for the greenhouse program at the Providence Center, a nonprofit organization that helps adults with developmental...
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