Most of the people that are in our jails and prisons throughout the country are there because they're poor. They're there because they've sold and used drugs. Unfortunately, they're there because they're people of color.
Cathrine Sneed
Restoring the People with the Healing Garden
1999 Spring | Cathrine Sneed
Cathrine Sneed founded the Garden Project as a horticultural training program for convicts in the San Francisco County Jail. The foods grown by the inmates are sold to Bay Area restaurants as well as given free to the needy and poor. She has also instituted a tree-planting program in ravaged communities in the city. The following is a transcript of portions of her keynote address at the 1998 Bioneers Conference, held October 23-25 in San Francisco, CA. (For more information, check the Bioneers website at www.bioneers.org or call 1-877-BIONEER.)
