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Planting Justice: California Prisoners Raise Vegetables to Find Different Kind of Freedom

Planting Justice: California Prisoners Raise Vegetables to Find Different Kind of Freedom
Mon, 2/24/2014 - by Planting Justice
This article originally appeared on Planting Justice

The Planting Justice team worked with Beth Waitkus and the Insight Garden Program to build four raised beds on the grounds of the H-Unit at San Quentin State Prison — one of the only sanctioned vegetable gardens in California. Over four days, men enrolled in the Insight Garden Program helped break up asphalt on the prison grounds to make way for the new vegetable garden and put in some much-needed hard work on the construction of the perimeter fence, filling the beds with over 10 yards of compost, mulching the area surrounding the beds, and planting them up with young vegetables and herbs.

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