Cultivating hope, joy, and transformation inside prisons.
Seed & Bloom facilitates therapeutic horticulture and culinary arts classes for students at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM). With groups at both the minimum- and maximum-security facilities, and an amazing team of facilitators and volunteers, we grow fresh vegetables and flowers outdoors in newly restored greenhouses and indoors in a controlled hydroponic environment. Each week, students use what they’ve harvested to develop healthy recipes, creating beautiful, delicious dishes and experiencing the full cycle from seed to table while sharing their work with the community and beyond.
Together, we’re building something rooted and alive, where healing happens through hands in dirt and stories shared around the stove.
Our Programs
Nature-Based Activities
Rooted in therapeutic horticulture, these include tending to our indoor plants and hydroponics towers where we grow flowers and vegetables inside the prison. They also include sitting under the tree in the courtyard with our students, reading poems, expressing ourselves…
Our Seed & Bloom Farm
We have grown almost 500 pounds of fresh food in four newly restored greenhouses. Our food is sold through the Santa Fe Farmers Market Institute’s Tianguis Móvil truck, which visits communities across the city with the goal of expanding access…
Culinary Workshops
In these, we prepare meals, invite students to look at grocery store prices in real time, and reflect on questions at the dinner table. These often center on food memories and sensory experiences the kitchen offers. Workshops include hours of teamwork…
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Your gift supports therapeutic horticulture and culinary arts classes for incarcerated students at the Penitentiary of New Mexico—transforming time behind bars into time spent growing, healing, and preparing for re-entry.