Growing Season
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At the San Francisco County Jail, a voluntary horticulture program is changing prisoner attitudes. Part of the compound has been converted to a flower and vegetable garden, and the harvest is donated to community food banks. The successful gardening program, created by Catherine Sneed, has instilled in many prisoners a new sense of self-worth, respect for life and connection to the community.
Outside of the jail, the program is blossoming into a network of community and school gardens. Ex-prisoners, business people, students, gardeners, Whites, Latinos, and African-Americans come together to work and create a place that is beautiful, functional and safe.
Besides showing other institutions a model program, the film presents a powerful argument for rehabilitation that is practical and inspirational.
'This inspiring program lends an optimistic perspective to prison rehabilitation.' Booklist
'An outstanding documentary that says a lot about spirit, hope, and love in a place where you might not expect it. Highly recommended. Editor's Choice.' **** Video Librarian
'An inspiring, award-winning video documentary... We highly encourage you to recommend this fabulous film to your local officials and prison administrators.' Soilmates
'Inspired work combining counseling, gardening, and ecology in a jail environment... this film has lessons for everyone who lives on this planet.' Gardeners in Community
Citation
Main credits
Wellington, Nicholas (film director)
Wellington, Nicholas (film producer)
Wellington, Nicholas (editor of moving image work)
Other credits
Camera, Ægir Gudmundsson [and 3 others]; music composed and performed by Barney Jones.
Distributor subjects
Criminology; Environment; Gardening; Horticulture; Humanities; Social Psychology; Social Studies; Urban Studies; Women's StudiesKeywords
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What is a garden you have to do
with your life? I found out.
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Okay, we take (inaudible)
and then we plant it.
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To take care of that being, I mean, to actually
to put it in as deep as it needs to go
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requires attention. To take the limestone
that we take to put into the bits
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to make sure that it grows requires attention
also, okay. And then what they do is
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they relate this or use
some type of analogy
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uh… that\'ll make you think, \'Hey, if
I can take care of this probably,
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you know, what (inaudible)
take care of myself.\'
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I really like the wintertime here at the desk
because all the perennials are looking dead
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and then the people that are here in the wintertime
were able to see them magically come back to life,
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but in order for that to happen there
are things preparatory to… to spring
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that we must do, we must clear the
weeds from around the perennials.
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We have to feed them with manure
and compost that we\'ve made.
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I love the compost pile
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because in our method of gardening we take
every troubled spot, every yellow leaf,
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everything that is… is considered waste
and we turn it back into rich soil.
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We have a saying out here that, \'A mistake is
only a mistake if you don\'t learn from it,
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but as long as you learn from the
mistake and… and turn it into a lesson,
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it can actually be
beneficial to your growth.\'
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[sil.]
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The horticulture program began in 1982.
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I was diagnosed as having a
very serious kidney disease
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and while I was in the
hospital a good friend of mine
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gave me The Grapes of Wrath to read.
It really struck me, it struck me that
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the people that I tried to reach in
the smoke-filled cells in the jail
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as a counselor for previous years that
they were a lot like these poor people
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in this Grapes of Wrath and they were independent, they
were strong. The women that… that mostly that I worked with
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as… as a counselor mostly women
were in for prostitution.
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You know how hard it is to stand on a corner and at night freezing
your ass off on… with, you know no clothes on practically.
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I mean, they are strong women
but on the wrong track.
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And I said, you know, I
want to take the people
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out to this empty farm and we could clean
it up that maybe we could grow things.
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I remember thinking they won\'t
respond good because in America
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working in the soil, working
in, you know, outside
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is not a prestigious thing. Everyone wants to be
a lawyer, everyone wants to have a briefcase.
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And so I remember thinking that maybe it\'s
not possible to bring these people out here.
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But The Grapes of Wrath made you see that
that was different, that it wasn\'t so.
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And I memorize I used to standing in front of
his 25-year-old (inaudible) rose bramble bush
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and saying one day to these guys, \'You
know, if we could move that rosebush,
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we could put beds there and they said, \'Is that what you what
Cathy Sneed, like, yeah, but you know we don\'t have tools,
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we can\'t do it. I\'d say it\'s impossible to wall.
They said, \'Oh, no they\'ve got their shirts
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like so (inaudible) I… I remember this one,
big giant white guy tattoos everywhere
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and then he was pulling them with his
hands and his hands were bleeding.
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Each morning, we start as a group.
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We come together as a group.
We focus on… on botany
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to an extent, I mean, but just imagine
this, you know, imagine, explaining,
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a sexual propagation to somebody who
has 65 arrests for prostitution.
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But this person is listening because
they hear the enthusiasm in your voice
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and they see that this might
be a way out of this mess.
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[non-English narration]
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I\'m wondering if you\'ve been talking to the President. I
see (inaudible) plans to planting a million trees a year.
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Its actually million tress. Million?
They hate it\'s the funny thing
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is… is that unless
something like that happen
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the planet (inaudible) but
see it\'s not just trees
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(inaudible) plant you guys. It\'s my field
and my field as we gonna integrate that.
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We gotta say, \'We gonna plant a
billion trees less pay a tree for
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who care for them and pay
them to make them life,
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let\'s do that. Let\'s work change our
community and this plant let\'s do that
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(inaudible) like that.
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[sil.]
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After that then we… we come out
and we work in… in the garden,
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but I choose not to say field.
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[sil.]
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We have people planting tons of seeds
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in the greenhouse. We do hundreds of
speed link trace in the springtime
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so that there are millions of seeds
sprouting. There\'s new growth everywhere.
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It\'s a… it\'s a time of really inspiration
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in terms of the belief that
what I plant is gonna grow.
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[sil.]
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When I got here I plant the pumpkins out there
and I didn\'t think none of them would come off.
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Now in October I was proud to see all those
pumpkins come up and I planted it out.
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Uh… There and I felt good. I got to give
pumpkins away to people, you know, the visitors
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that came out here, and
I grew those pumpkins.
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[sil.]
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Its kinda respect…
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its kinda respect between the plant
and you because if you do wrong
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the plants gonna die. If you do
the right, the plants gonna live.
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Umm… we can relate those things
with the people right here.
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If you\'re not respect the people right
here, this is not gonna work at all.
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I\'m a Latino man from my heart
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and I don\'t feel less than nobody
even I don\'t feel more than nobody,
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I feel exactly. Everybody has the
same capacity for everything.
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God gave us intelligence, two hands,
two eyes, doesn\'t matter the color,
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it doesn\'t matter. You are a human being.
What many people right here (inaudible)
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the race\'s problem is really big in you,
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truly a strong, but being here
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working agricultural, being here
working in the greenhouse is something
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someway is gonna help
people umm… to (inaudible)
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coming to know your people you gotta work with
some people that you\'ve never seen before,
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that you don\'t know how they think,
that you don\'t know how they feel.
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We grow a variety of species together,
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different varieties of plants,
different families of plants
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that can help each other in the garden,
that can deter diseases from the plants,
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that benefit each other\'s growth. We\'re
growing flowers, we\'re growing herbs
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and we\'re growing vegetables together. When
you go in the woods, you very rarely see
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plants that are diseased because of the
varieties that are grown around them.
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We use this technique
because in our own lives
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we will sometimes plant
ourselves next to people
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that are not good for us.
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Weeding is something that we do
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to give plants room to grow because
the weeds they… they… they tend
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to show plants in a way, they latch
onto them, they choke them (inaudible)
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and they take from sort of like a leech.
And we applied that
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to our lives as though drugs
and alcohol are like a weed
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and some are allies that
we have to weed out.
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We have to cut out the roots and
take out in… in order to grow
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as a healthy human being and
be productive in the society.
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[sil.]
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I am in-charge to the greenhouse. What I do
(inaudible) that is we water the plants,
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cross planting, keep this place clean
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umm… but especially what
I do is feed myself,
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my own self with some kinda, I don\'t know
how to describe that, some (inaudible)
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when I came over here (inaudible) plant.
I didn\'t know.
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I never knew that I had this kind
of feelings inside me, now I do.
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Yeah, I like flowers. Flower is my thing.
So I take care of
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my beautiful yard behind me.
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I come out here and talk to my flowers, you know,
tell them I love them, you know, (inaudible) I mean,
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and when I see the day once I pick them, so
the other ones can have a chance to grow.
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[music]
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It told me inside
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that is (inaudible) as women out
here they work with you too.
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I say, \'Well, you know, (inaudible) get to see,
when we get to be outside and get to talk.
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And I came out here really for socializing with
women at first. (inaudible) right focusing
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make any difference in our life, that\'s what we\'re
doing. We don\'t come out here to visit with women.
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We come out here to visit with our
souls, that\'s what (inaudible).
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[sil.]
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I\'m sure there are people
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who came up to me and would be disrespectful
or say things and I just turn around say,
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\'You know, talk to him, please don\'t talk to me like that.
I\'m not the person who likes to be talks to like that
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and everybody, you know,
treats me with respect.
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And if they don\'t, I don\'t talk to them, you know,
because there\'s always gonna be people in the crowd
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that don\'t know how to treat other people.
It\'s always gonna be that
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after all we are in jail and people
don\'t know how to act sometimes.
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Basically, women if you really put your mind, they get you in more trouble
and catch you right up quicker than just you and a fellow as being out here,
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you know, because you can\'t be biome.
They can\'t be by you
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and if you get caught or they get caught touching your
shoulders (inaudible) automatic roller maybe 30 days.
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In terms of… of sexism,
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a lot of the guys are learning
new things about women
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because in living in the… in the
street and living they\'ve done
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growing up in America, they have
a really crazy sense of women,
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but working with me and Arlene and the other woman
here they\'re learning and seeing something different.
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And I think that\'s true for racism
and for homophobia as well.
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[sil.]
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When you plant a plant and then you
see its sprout up the next day
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and then as much going then you\'ll be able to
eat the fruit that it has bared off this plant
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is like, you plant (inaudible) suddenly
you see it grow up, I… I guess
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self gratitude out of it. (inaudible) don\'t nobody had
to tell me thank you because I know what I have done
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and I know it\'s been positive
and it took a lot of me
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to turn that bad into… into plant
the seed and to watch it grow.
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[sil.]
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The food that we grow it goes everywhere
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to (inaudible) Hannah\'s point, to soup
kitchens all around San Francisco
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because we figure we take a lot out
of… a lot out of our community
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and this is a way of giving back to our
community by growing produce (inaudible)
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and we take pride in what we do
here, so we… we grow the best
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and we give the best food to the people.
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Every time we\'re picking something when we
put in a crate we know where it\'s going
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and we know it\'s gonna help somebody and it
gives you motivation to want to come out here
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and do that, you know, I think it\'s just going to our kitchen
where we eat, I don\'t think it would be quite the same,
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you know, it\'s a little bit more special.
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[music]
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There\'s no jail
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that has as uh… basic goal
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gardening as therapy. So this
is a model, I want other jails
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to look at what we\'re doing and say we could do
that too. Why are we keeping people in cages
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and doing horrible things to them and
expecting them to leave those horrible cages
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and come back be normal and nice people living
with everyone, that\'s not gonna happen,
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but most jails have a lot of land like
this one does. Umm… And most places
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in this country have poor people, we could
grow food for them, we could grow trees.
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[sil.]
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You come in here and you start doing something. A lot of
people who come in here and haven\'t had jobs, steady jobs,
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you know, they\'re the (inaudible)
umm… and they come here,
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you gotta get up at six in the morning, you gotta get
dressed, you gotta get ready and for them that\'s unheard of,
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I mean, I\'ve heard people saying, \'It\'s the
earliest I\'ve ever been up in my life, \' you know,
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and it\'s a ritual every day what you gotta do. Umm…
And then pretty soon you start seeing these people
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that aren\'t used to it, wanting
to go out on weekends too.
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The people that want to leave, I
try to talk to them and I say,
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you know, (inaudible) \'Well, why do you want to leave? And
they say, \'Well, they just were brainwashing you, you know.
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All I want you to do is work with them.
They want you to… to farm
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or to (inaudible) the land and to… to… to weed
these plants and stuff like that, you know.
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And I said they don\'t want you to work with
them, they want you to work for yourself.
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A lot of people who thought about leaving then I talk to
and I said, \'Well, just give it a couple of more days.\'
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They give a couple of more days whereas when it
first came out they will be stepping in to bed now
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and I\'ve been on here a month. They would
tell you or deputy on that (inaudible)
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not stepping out (inaudible).
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We need jobs, we need money
to keep this program going.
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We need a shelter when the people live here.
They could all (inaudible) have a place to go,
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instead of going, when they drop you
off a (inaudible) walk-up (inaudible)
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and there\'s a little house
and (inaudible) house
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maybe if they could go to and (inaudible) something on the
outside like a little we\'ve to start a horticulture project
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which I think they got ongoing. Planting
trees outside to keep this going.
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I\'m very pleased with the
program at the jail.
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But it seemed to me inconsistent
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to… to only have a program
like that at the jail.
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We invite people that have been in
the program at the jail in San Bruno
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to come here after they get out of the
jail, if they want to be serious,
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if they are not using drugs or alcohol,
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if they\'d like to work with
us to come to talk to us.
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The garden is in Bayview–Hunters
Point in San Francisco.
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It\'s about two miles from Candlestick Park
and a lot of the people that are in our jail
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are from this neighborhood. This where we\'re
sitting now used to be a garbage dump.
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It was a (inaudible) lot, this was filled with garbage.
Then, it was less than a year ago and we\'ve done is
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we\'ve made it into a functioning
usable place that is beautiful
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and brings together the fact that
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this… the environment in
which people come together
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to make a big change.
And we\'re selling food
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to… to different restaurants
and also this is
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just desserts main bakery and we
sell… we sell strawberries to them.
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It used to upset me so bad
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to see the people return.
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What upset me not so much was the fact that they
return because I know what\'s out there for them.
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What upset me was how happy
they were to be back.
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They would say, \'Cathy hi… hi!
I\'m back and I\'m gonna grow
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and we\'re gonna do this and I can\'t wait to get
(inaudible) go outside.\' And I was horrified.
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Each and every (inaudible) was horrified
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because they were still saying the truth, that
this was the best thing that had happened to them
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and they had worked to
get back here, to it.
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Then, the bell rings. That\'s back to life, you know,
back to… we\'re back in San Bruno County Jail.
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And it\'s back off into the dorms
we go, but… but before we go,
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Cathy always tells us not to
forget that… that we are people
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and… and just because we did
some bad to make a bad people.
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And I\'ll… I\'ll always love her in
(inaudible) for that (inaudible).
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What this program does?
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What I\'ve seen it do is I\'ve seen it make
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people who have no hope, have hope,
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which is a tremendously
powerful thing, you know.
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And it\'s uh… I don\'t think it\'s because
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umm… because of me or
because of the staff here
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I do think that it is what
they\'re doing, you know,
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they\'re… they\'re umm… because of
their work they\'re giving themselves
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to people who don\'t have anything, you
know, food for people, but also trees
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to streets where there aren\'t trees and
flowers where there are no flowers, you know,
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which is as important as… as getting
vegetables or food to people
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who have no food, and it\'s
not me, it\'s not my staff,
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it\'s working with these green
things gives them a sense of life
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and most of them never had
it from anywhere else.
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I like to go work on a farm for somebody
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and… and like I want to be dedicated to the farm
like I am here. And I want to work this as hard
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and I don\'t want to stay clean.
I was… I was like a dead tree
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when I first came here and I see when watering,
you could water the tree and feed it nice,
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it grows up and it will have (inaudible).
I don\'t want to go back to the streets
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and just hanging around waste and die.
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[music]