Notes from the Field

TNGS Featured in DOC Newsletter

June 20, 2014

The New Garden Society was featured in the Massachusetts Department of Corrections' May/June 2014 newsletter, Around the Block. Click here to read the article (page 4).

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...