After an afternoon of weeding and picking vegetables
Racine Correctional Institution inmate Gerald
Foster, 45, flexes after he and other inmates working the garden carried
boxes of produce from the garden to the gate Friday, Sept. 3, 2004. By the
second week in September, the garden had contributed more than four tons of
produce to Racine-area food pantries, including about 1,800 pounds of
tomatoes. 'It's something that I never experienced before -- you know, coming
out here, working every day, picking, seeing the tomatoes turn. When I first
came out here, this was just still a baby, just like these here,' Foster
says, bending over some late snap beans. 'I've seen them grow.'
