Cathrine Sneed: The Garden Project

Opening segment of Cathrine Sneed's 1995 E. F. Schumacher Lecture entitled "The Garden Project: Growing Urban Communities." Cathrine Sneed's work, as described in her lecture, shows that bringing people out of the jails and off the streets into the garden can be transformative in both the human and natural realms. Sneed's personal story is equally compelling—overcoming illness, poverty, a skeptical bureaucracy, and resistance of co-workers to create a gardening program within the San Francisco jail system which linked prisoners to the restaurants and people outside prison walls.

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Citizen
• Action
• Criminal
• Justice
• Gardening
• Prison
• Reform
• Urban
• Renewal