2025 Impact Report

What This Report Represents

Since Planting Justice began in 2009, our vision has been rooted in a simple but profound belief: communities most impacted by incarceration, disinvestment, and environmental harm already hold the wisdom needed to build thriving futures. What has always been needed to correct historic wrongs is land, resources, opportunity, and the collective will to invest in life.

Over the years, that vision has grown into a living ecosystem. What began as a small grassroots effort has become a network of land-based social enterprises across Oakland, El Sobrante, and Sacramento that collectively create living-wage jobs with benefits, grow healthy food, caretake extraordinary plant diversity, mentor youth, and build pathways home for people returning from prison.

So this report reflects much more than a single year of accomplishments. It tells the story of a model that has been growing in depth, scale, and clarity. A model that links holistic reentry, food sovereignty, environmental justice, youth leadership, and community economic resilience into a shared whole. Within this growing holistic web of PJ sites, we are working to prove that living-wage jobs, supportive care, and rooted relationships to land can interrupt cycles of incarceration and create the conditions for healing and self-determination.

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