Notes from the Field

TNGS Field Trip to Dismas Farm Festival

September 25, 2014

Part of the TNGS team visited Dismas House's family farm in Oakham, MA for their annual Fall Festival! We got to speak to residents, board members, and the people behind it all. It was a beautiful day for a great event! Check out their website to learn more about Dismas House and the awesome work they do: http://www.dismashouse.org/

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...