LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — It will be a few more years before apple and pear trees planted at a Lincoln prison campus will yield a bounty, but inmates already are taking away more than fruit.

Prisoners working in the orchard are learning life skills as they learn how to prune and spray, ward off hungry critters and nurture beneficial bees.

The first cherries were harvested earlier this month from trees planted more than two years ago. Young apple trees are beginning to bear fruit, and farm shop manager John Filbert says each tree should produce 400 pounds of apples in three or four years.

A vegetable garden also sits on the campus, which holds the Community Corrections Center and the Lincoln Correctional Center.