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Lettuce Grow, a sustainable gardening program at 16 Oregon prisons, provides prisoners with valuable skills that can help them secure jobs when they are freed. Once 45-year-old Adria White discovered her green thumb, even the lockdown during the pandemic could not stop her. She worked her way through the college level class materials on her own and managed to secure a job at Lettuce Grow upon her release. Besides gardening skills, the program provides more than 200 prisoners access to healthy, delicious food grown from their own gardens. In prison, they don't ever serve tomatoes, says White. There is a lot of emotion in eating a fresh tomato when you haven't in 10 years. For White and others like her, the garden is a healing place where they can find inner peace.
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