Land Together

Land Together, doing business as Insight Garden Program, is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Sacramento, California that receives federal grants to deliver environmental education, climate justice advocacy, and vocational horticultural training to incarcerated individuals in California prisons and people in reentry. The organization operates as a prime recipient on federal grant awards (80% of recent awards) and has placed one sub-award as a sub-recipient under a University of California, Davis prime grant.

Insight Garden Program's grant footprint spans five distinct federal agencies across environmental, agricultural, and justice programs. The Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded a $1.5 million project grant under the Inflation Reduction Act (awarded December 1, 2024, completing May 1, 2025) to fund educational and training programs inside seven California prisons and collaborative governance activities with recently released individuals. The award includes the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights as a subrecipient, providing project advisory services and direct Environmental Advisory Board engagement. The Department of Agriculture's National Resources Conservation Service awarded a $100 thousand project grant under the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production program (CFDA 10.935, awarded August 30, 2023, completing September 30, 2026) for community gardens, rooftop farms, and green-wall urban agriculture practices in California. Additional grant awards span the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance, and the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of Grants Management. In its sub-recipient role, Insight Garden Program participates in a University of California, Davis prime grant for "Biodiversity Science in Prison," a codesigned California Naturalist course fostering incarcerated people's learning in science and environmental connection (awarded January 6, 2026).

The organization's recent activity shows sparse but consistent engagement — one award per year from 2023 through 2026 — with combined dollars obligated across all five awards totaling $2.4 million. One of the two active grants (the EPA IRA award) reaches completion within the next twenty-four months.