prison gardening programs
gwfeenstra@ucdavis.edu
Tue, 5 Sep 1995 08:58:32 -0700
I've been reading the discussion on the prison gardening programs. I believe
the person people are referring to is Catherine Sneed. She is the founder of
a horticultural program for the San Francisco County Jail. She has combined
her legal training, experience as a jail counselor, and horticultural
training to teach prisoners at the County Jail how to grow produce using the
biodynamic French intensive method. Weekly, the eight-acre garden's organic
produce is delivered to projects that supply food to seniors, homeless
people, and AIDS victims. After being released, many of the former prisoners
choose to continue to work with plants in the Garden Project, founded and
directed by Sneed, in a series of programs that helps them re-enter their
communities. For those of you on the West Coast, Catherine will be one of
the keynote speakers at the Western Region Community Supported Agriculture
Conference at the Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, November 12-14. She will
be featured along with Helena Norberg-Hodge and Alice Waters at the Monday
Evening Public Event at 8:00 at the Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center. The
talks will focus on "Strengthening Our Communities Through Farming and
Gardening". For more information, contact: Jered Lawson, CSA Conference, '95,
at (408)459-3964, e-mail: farmcsa@aol.com. For those of you on the east
coast, Catherine Sneed is one of the featured speakers at the fifteenth
annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures, Saturday, October 21 at the Yale Law School.
She will be speaking along with Paul Hawken and Kent Whealy. For more
information, contact: the E.F. Schumacher Society, (413) 528-1737, e-mail:
efssociety@aol.com. She's a great speaker!
Gail Feenstra
UC SAREP
UC Davis
(916) 752-8408