Press

Greenfield, Nicole. “Branching out: Growing careers and spreading equity through urban forestry.” American Forests Magazine. Winter-Spring 2025.

Patrice Wood, NBC 10 News. Community Treasures Feature: Garden Time gives former inmates a chance to make difference in the community. February 12, 2025

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“After 23 years behind bars, the RI man behind Mario’s Law talks about the capacity to change.” Rhode Island Report podcast with Edward Fitzpatrick. Boston Globe. January 16, 2025

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“Tree Equity Taking Root in Rhode Island.” Green Seeker Rhode Island PBS. October 22, 2023

Fitzpatrick, Edward. “A graduation ceremony with no pomp but improved circumstances.” Boston Globe. June 16, 2023

Cronin, Colleen. “Doing ‘Garden Time’ Helps Incarcerated People Rebuild Their Lives.” ecoRI. March 28, 2023

Interview on Resiliency Radio Hour, WBLQ, February 10, 2022

RI Food Policy Council – Rhode Island Stories: Garden Time, 2020

Formerly Incarcerated Men, Women Get New Chance Through ‘Green Reentry’, Story, video and photos by Stephen Ide, One Neighborhood Builders

#GardenStories VIDEO filmed at the men’s medium- and maximum-security facilities, 2018.

Espinoza, Ambar. “At Maximum Security Prison, Gardening Gives Inmates a Chance to Grow.” RIPR November 25, 2015.

Fitzpatrick, Edward. “Fitz’s Hits: From hard time to Garden Time.” Providence Journal, December 5, 2015.

“Garden programs give inmates hope, future job skills.” New England Grassroots Environmental Fund Website, March 2014.

Hill, John. “Program Provides New Outlook.” Providence Journal, August 09, 2012.

Chitnis, Christine. “Hidden Garden”, Edible Rhody Magazine. Summer, 2012.

Hill, John. “Lifers Learn to Grow.” Providence Journal, October 31, 2011.                    

“Lifers Learn to Grow.” Page 2.

Turner, Scott. “A Paean to the Bean of 2011, Providence Journal, 2011.

“Garden Therapy at Max.” RIDOC Review, newsletter of the RI Department of Corrections, Summer 2011.

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