Urban GreenWorks’ James Jiler – Mulch is Gold Wednesday, August 22: a Miami City dump truck the size of a small warehouse rumbles down the driveway to the prison gates. I wait outside, more than excited – for the delivery of its load was almost one-year in the making, an answer to the hard-fought battle [...]
Digging up Dirt in Miami: a journey through an Urban tropical Landscape — james jiler, Urban GreenWorks
Making dirt in prison Part of my week finds me in a South Florida prison building gardens. I work with ten men – all elderly and most serving life sentences, or sentences long enough that likely they will die there. The prison administration tolerates their work building a food garden, and apart from permission and [...]
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