Cultivating Dreams's Page

For those of you who don't know, we are a project organized by students at the Claremont Colleges to operate an organic vegetable garden inside CIW, a women's prison in Chino. The garden is maintained through the collective effort of the women inside and volunteers from across the colleges and surrounding communities.We want to double the size of the garden, and bring in educational speakers for the prisoners! But in order to do that, we need money! And to get money we need YOU to vote for our…See More

Recently, we tried “broadcasting” for the first time. Broadcasting is a method of sowing seeds where seeds are scattered onto a bed and then mixed in with the soil. It is also the origin of the phrase we use today to mean the distribution of audio or video signals (i.e. a radio broadcast). Broadcasting is typically used to cover large areas, such as a lawn, with seeds. We decided to try our hand at broadcasting a few beds of spinach. However, that was three weeks ago, and there has since been…See More