Blog & Stories
Insights, updates, and stories from the Sustainability in Prisons Project—highlighting conservation programs, education, research, and community impact.
The Great Unknowns
By Carl Elliott, SPP Ecological Conservation Nursery Manager The cultivation of native plant material in a nursery is fraught with unknowns. Wild-collected and farm-raised seed often have erratic germination requirements…
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So Close to a Million Plants We Can Almost Taste It
By Carl Elliott, SPP Ecological Conservation Nursery Manager SPP’s Ecological Conservation Nursery continue to thrive at three facilities in Washington State: Stafford Creek Corrections Center, Washington Corrections Center for Women,…
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Washington Higher Education Sustainability Conference
Tiffany Webb, SPP’s Education and Evaluation Coordinator, and I had the chance to attend the first annual Washington Higher Education Sustainability Conference this week. We are now one day into…
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Fire in the Demonstration Garden
Last month, as part of the ongoing cultivation of the demonstration prairie garden at Shotwell’s Landing nursery, the inmate prairie restoration crew got to burn an area for seeding with…
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Photo Gallery from Roots of Success Graduation at Stafford Creek Corrections Center
by Joslyn Rose Trivett, SPP Network Manager “The program is called Roots of Success, but it feels like the course is a seed planted in our minds.” “We have a…
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Counting the Birds instead of counting the days until summer at Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women
By Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly program coordinator and Graduate Research Assistant, Lindsey Hamilton At Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW) four inmate technicians rear Taylor’s checkerspot butterflies as a contribution…
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