Notes from the Field

TNGS Featured on WGBH's Craving Boston Blog

October 29, 2015

The New Garden Society is thrilled to share Lisa Johnson's article about The New Garden Society!

"Prison Gardens Grow Food and Skill Sets" was published on WGBH's Craving Boston blog this week, and features our work at Bridgewater State Hospital.

The Simple Intervention of Prison Gardens

Since 2013, The New Garden Society has grown food and flowers alongside incarcerated students in Greater Boston. We are unable to share many of the details of our work here, but offer glimpses into the project of building connections between our local community of land care practitioners and incarcerated horticulture students. Together, we're transitioning prison yards built on former farmland back to productive landscapes...